Re: Possibility of Sharifs’ Arrest
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Notices issued to govt, others on plea seeking Shahbaz’s arrest
** LAHORE**: Anti-Terrorism Court-III Judge Shabbir Hussain on Friday issued notices to the government and other respondents on an application seeking the arrest of former Punjab chief minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif on his return to Pakistan as the court declared him an absconder in the Sabzazar shootout case.**
**The judge also issued notices to the Sabzazar police station house officer on another application seeking the seizure of Shahbaz’s property. Saeeduddin, a complainant in the Sabzazar shootout case, filed the applications through his counsel, Aftab Ahmad Bajwa. **
**The applicant said that Shahbaz returned to the country in 2004 but the government sent him back with mala fide intention. **
**Saeeduddin accused the government of protecting the killer of his sons. He said police officials had court orders to arrest Shahbaz because he was a court absconder. He requested the court to direct police officials to arrest the absconder the moment he returned to Pakistan.
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An anti-terrorism court of Lahore had declared Mian Shahbaz Sharif and Muhammad Tariq Asghar absconder and also separated their trial.
An FIR was registered on the directions of the Lahore High Court. According to the FIR, police raided the house of Saeeduddin on April 21, 1998, took his son Salahuddin to the police station and demanded Rs 5,000 for his release. The complainant said he read in the newspaper on April 27, 1998, that his son and Wakeel, Waseem, Haider and Abdul Rauf were killed in a police encounter. **He alleged that this whole encounter was held on the direction of Shahbaz Sharif. **
The other accused in the case included former Lahore senior superintendent of police Ahmad Raza Tahir, DSP Umar Virk, Muhammad Asghar, ASI Zulfiqar Ahmad, ASI Lala Roshan, Head Constable Noorul Hassan, Constable Abid Hussain, Shamshad Ahmad, Munir Ahmad, Muhammad Riaz, Manzoor Ahmad and Hakim Ali.