[DAWN] An antiterrorism court on Saturday granted bail to three men, alleged to be agents of the Indian intelligence agency RAW... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man...
, in cases pertaining to anti-state activities and possession of explosives and illicit weapons.
Mohammad Shafiq Khan alias Pappu, an employee of the Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Water and Sewerage Board, Abdul Jabbar alias Zafar Tension, Mohsin Khan alias Kashif, Khalid Aman alias Dad and Adil Ansari have been charged with allegedly spying for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), getting training in India, being involved in anti-state activities and carrying kaboom and weapons.
The Counter-Terrorism Department claimed to have tossed in the slammer
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
four of the five accused in August 2015 after an encounter in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and found explosives and unlicensed weapons in their custody. Accused Ansari was arrested later.
Shafiq, Jabbar and Mohsin, through their lawyers, moved bail applications in the main as well as connected cases and after hearing arguments from both sides, the ATC-I judge granted them bail against a surety bond of Rs500,000 each.
The prosecution has so far examined one out of seven witnesses while the high court had already granted bail to Ansari.
According to the prosecution, the accused worked for RAW, got training in India and were involved in terrorism. The court had already declared London-based MQM leader Mohammad Anwar and two others, Mehmood Siddiqui and Mohammad Salman, proclaimed officers.
It maintained that accused Aman disclosed during interrogation that Mr Anwar and Mr Siddiqui had played a role in getting them trained by RAW. It further said that Aman in his confessional statement before a judicial magistrate also said that after training he was arrested and sent to a Delhi jail following a brawl with his accomplice Javed Langra.