SHC grants Farooq Sattar, Aamir Khan pre-arrest bail

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Farooq Sattar on Monday said that the Sindh High Court has granted him and another party leader Aamir Khan pre-arrest bail in different cases.

Talking to the media Barrister Farogh Naseem said that anti-Pakistan elements should face cases, however, the elements who are with Pakistan should be strengthened.

The protective bail application against four cases was also filed by MQM-P's Amir Khan.

Sattar was accompanied by other party leaders, including Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Advocate Mahfooz Yar Khan.

Earlier, an anti-terrorism court ordered Rangers DG Major General Muhammad Saeed to arrest and present Sattar and others in the court by May 31.

The directives were issued after the police failed to arrest the accused.

MQM's founding leader — in a speech to participants of a hunger strike outside the Karachi Press Club on August 22, 2016 — incited party workers following which they took to the streets, ransacked media houses and vandalised property.

At least one person died and eight others were injured in the ensuing violence.