KARACHI: Former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)’s leader Saleem Shahzad has been booked in two more cases related to kidnapping, wrongful confinement and rioting. The anti-terrorism court-II Judge allowed an application of the police seeking his arrest from prison in the cases. The court was set to issue orders for the release of former MQM leader after he furnished a surety bond as he was granted bail a few days ago in a case pertaining to providing shelter and treatment to alleged political terrorists at Dr Asim Hussain’s hospital. However, two investigating officers moved applications seeking a no objection certificate from court to arrest him from prison in two more cases. According to them, Shehzad was a proclaimed offender in two cases lodged in 1992 at Malir and Landhi police stations pertaining to kidnapping, wrongful confinement, criminal intimidation and rioting. The MQM leader was arrested earlier in February at the Jinnah International Airport upon his return to the country after ending his two-decade-long self-imposed exile. Shahzad along with Karachi mayor-designate Waseem Akhtar and MPA Rauf Siddiqui and Abdul Qadir Patel of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and Anis Qaimkhani of Pak Sarzameen Party had been nominated as co-accused in the case. The Rangers had registered the complaint against key suspect Dr Asim for allegedly treating and harbouring suspected terrorists, militants and gangsters injured in clashes with law enforcers at the branches of his hospital at the behest of the above-mentioned suspects. MQM leader released: MQM lawmaker Kamran Farooqui was released from prison on Wednesday after an anti-terrorism court issued orders for his release. Farooqui has been facing charges of possessing illicit weapon and explosive substance. The ATC had earlier granted him bail in two cases against surety of Rs 200,000 and Rs 100,000 in each case. The MQM leader was arrested during a routine snap checking in Garden Shoe Market area on December 17 as an unlicensed pistol, a hand grenade was found in his possession.