Indian national remanded

A man believed to be an Indian national living in Karachi for the past 31 years was remanded to prison until March 7 on Saturday.

The court of the judicial magistrate (East) was informed that the man named Abdul Qadir had illegally entered Pakistan from the Wagah border in 1986 and later settled in Karachi.

He also illegally obtained a Pakistani identification card and later married a Pakistani woman, a widow with two children, the magistrate was told.

The investigating officer (IO) informed the court that Qadir fathered seven more children and now the couple had nine children in all.

The man was employed in a government department dealing with a printing press at the time the Federal Investigation Agency arrested him.

Sending Qadir to the central prison on judicial remand, the court directed the IO to submit the charge sheet against the accused by March 7.