MQM leaders declared absconders, Court orders confiscation of wealth, properties

Author: Web Desk

KARACHI: Local Court on Tuesday ordered concerned authorities to confiscate properties of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders.

The court declared MQM leaders conveyor Khalid Maqbool, Nasreen Jaleel, Kamal Pasha, Kanwar Naveed and Faisal Siddiqui as absconders in the case.

The local court conducted hearing of the case against MQM leaders pertaining to violation of Loudspeakers Act 1965.

During the hearing, Soldier Bazaar Police Station presented a report before the court  regarding the fugitive MQM leaders.

According to the police report before requesting the court to state the suspects as declared absconders, the police raided houses of the leaders, posted wanted adverts at various police stations and sent official letter to concerned authorities for official record of the suspects’ assets records.

The police also informed the court that leader Haider Abbas Rizvi has left Pakistan thus could not be arrested. Whereas Farooq Sattar and Waseem Akhtar are on bail.

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