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13:07, September 07, 2007 |
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Friday issued arrest warrant for a senior opposition leader in connection with the killing of five people in a fake police encounter.
The court in east city of Lahore issued arrest warrant for Shahbaz Sharif, the former Chief Minister of Punjab province and President of the major opposition party Pakistan Muslim League ( Nawaz).
Shahbaz Sharif has announced to return to Pakistan on Sept. 10 along with his brother Nawaz Sharif, who served twice as former prime minister in the 1990s and went into exile in 2000 under an arrangement brokered through Saudi Arabia.
Shahbaz Sharif was accused of masterminding a fake encounter to kill members of extremist sectarian groups when he was ruling the Punjab province in late 1990s.
A man Saaduddin had approached the court that his two sons were among a group of five killed on the instructions from Shahbaz Sharif.
Ahsan Iqbal, a spokesman of PML-N said that Shahbaz Sharif will return despite the court arrest warrant.
In another development, an accountability bureau refused to issue arrest warrant for Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif in corruption cases.
The government-run National Accountability Bureau (NAB) last month re-opened corruption cases against Sharifs brother after the Supreme Court ruled that they can return to Pakistan.
Government lawyer Zulfikar Bhutta earlier told the court in Rawalpindi that the Chairman of the NAB can issue arrest warrant during the trial of accused.
But the court did not issue arrest warrants and adjourned the hearing till Sept. 13.
Source: Xinhua
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