KARACHI: Sindh High Court directed the superintendent of Central Prison Karachi to provide medical treatment to an ailing Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) London leader incarcerated under Maintenance of Public Order. This direction came on a petition filed by Naz Khalid Kunwar, the wife of MQM leader Kunwar Khalid Younus Ali Khan, who moved the high court seeking his release and provision of medical facilities to her ailing husband. The provincial police chief placed on record the copy of the order regarding detention of the MQM leader under MPO. While putting off the matter until 18th, the bench directed the home secretary, DG Rangers and others to file their comments. Petitioner Naz had submitted that the Rangers personnel had arrested her spouse along with other MQM leaders from outside Karachi Press Club on October 21st when they were going to address a press conference. Later, she said, she came to know through media that her spouse was detained with other leaders under MPO. She told the judges that there were no criminal charges against Kunwar Khalid who had been a member of the National Assembly. She apprehended that her spouse would be implicated in fictitious criminal cases. The woman petitioner stated that her husband is a senior citizen and suffering from various diseases and the family members are not being allowed to see him in prison. The petitioner’s counsel argued that the detention order was illegal and unconstitutional and against the principle of natural justice. The law enforcement agencies are bound to treat every citizen equally but they are overriding certain provisions of the Constitution. Therefore, she pleaded the court to declare the detention of the petitioner’s spouse as illegal and order his release. The court was further requested to direct the jail authorities to allow relatives of the detainee to meet him in prison. Meanwhile, the bench issued a notice to the provincial home secretary, the provincial chiefs of Rangers and Police, the city’s commissioner and others to submit their comments on a petition seeking release of MQM-London’s leader Amjadullah Khan.