Hearing in Model Town case adjourned

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of Model Town case by May 4. The court adjourned the hearing after partial arguments on the statement of Jawad Hamid. Earlier, the court had indicted 116 police officials on a private complaint filed by Idara Minhajul Quran for seeking their trial on charges of killing its workers during 2014 Model Town incident. The court had in 2017 partially admitted the complaint against 125 officials of police and district government while rejecting it to the extent of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and 10 others, including federal and provincial ministers. Appeals of the accused officials summoned by the trial court were pending with the LHC

The 12 political leaders against whom the ATC had rejected the complaint are Nawaz Sharif, CM Shahbaz Sharif, MNA Hamza Shahbaz, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, Railways Minister Saad Rafique, Foreign Minister Khwaja Asif, former information minister Pervaiz Rashid, State Minister Abid Sher Ali, former interior minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan, then personal secretary to CM Syed Tauqir Shah, home minister Azam Suleman and then Lahore commissioner Rashid Mahmood Langrial.