Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar in hot waters
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*KARACHI - Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar lands in hot waters yet again as he has been indicted by the anti terrorism court.*
A special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday has indicted Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar in a case related to carnage on May 12, 2007.
The court also heard four more cases in relation to the carnage in which many others were also indicted, however, all in accused along with the Mayor Karachi denied the charges pertaining to the case.
A committee was also constituted by the Sindh High Court (SHC) for investigating into the violence and is headed by AIG Karachi Amir Sheikh.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) workers asked, “Were only MQM-P activists involved in killing in Karachi, and were other political workers without arms in that battlefield”?
Following that, the court ordered witnesses to appear in before the ATC. The hearing has been put off till October 27.
