Dr Asim’s ‘accomplices’ remanded for 14 days

Karachi
Sui Southern Gas Company deputy director Shaoib Warsi and former managing director Zuhair Siddiqui and three other alleged accomplices of former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain, who is facing corruption charges, were produced before a National Accountability Bureau court on Saturday and remanded for 14 days for interrogation.
A day earlier, they were produced before a court a transit remand but the court had declined the request and directed the investigators to seek it from a NAB court.
Besides Warsi and Siddiqui, the three other men include KDA directors Kazi Adil, Saad Qureshi and Nasir Arshad, and a housing scheme builder Anjum.
On the expiration of the 90-day preventive detention, Rangers had handed over the custody of the two alleged accomplices of Dr Hussain to NAB authorities on the grounds that the two were involved in corruption and other illegal activities while assisting the former minister.
The two men were arrested on August 28 by the Rangers and the next day produced before an anti-terrorism court for the endorsement of the preventive detention under Section 11-EEEE of the Pakistan Protection Act.
The Rangers had arrested Shoaib Warsi along with Zuhair Siddiqui and Kamaran Ahmed in a raid on the SSGC’s head office.
Shoaib Warsi and Zohair Siddiqui were taken to the court of Judicial Magistrate East Javed Malik and the court was requested to grant remand to justify their detention by NAB authorities after the expiration of preventive detention.
The court was further informed that the two men were the accomplices of Dr Hussain, who facilitated terrorists and other criminals by providing them with medical treatment and had caused a great loss to the national exchequer through his corrupt practices. The court, however directed NAB officials to approach the court concerned instead of asking a subordinate court which had no jurisdiction to deal with such matters.