Gunmen harass CJPs relatives
More than a dozen armed men stormed into the house of relatives of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in Quetta and harassed them, the family said on Sunday. About 12 to 15 armed men broke into my house Saturday night after tying the guard with ropes and they asked my mother at gunpoint about me, Justice Chaudhrys nephew Rana Amir, who is also a lawyer, told AFP. He said they werent robbers as they took nothing away, and they left behind a Kalashnikov. I saved myself by hiding in a bathroom, Amir said, adding that he feared that had they found me, they would have killed me. Amir said they appeared to be intelligence agencies men who kept on harassing my family. Police are investigating the incident.
Posted by: Seafarious 2007-06-18 |