Civil Judge Irfan Sheikh on Saturday rejected a bail application by Khalid Khawaja, a former Pakistan Air Force and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official, in a case against him for his involvement in the distribution of hate material outside Lal Masjid here at Aabpara.
Defence counsel Hashmat Habib said that Aabpara police had implicated his client in a false case. He said his client was on his way to the mosque for Friday prayers at Lal Masjid on January 26 when the police arrested him. He said the authorities had not kept Khawaja in a ‘B’ class jail despite court orders for the provision of this facility. The Adiala Jail assistant superintendent told the court that Khawaja had been kept away from other inmates because of the “sensitivity” of his case. |