KARACHI: A district and sessions court in Malir on Saturday extended the bail of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and Sindh Assembly Opposition Leader Haleem Adil Sheikh in a case pertaining to violence, attacking and hurling death threats to officials of the anti-encroachment department and police during an operation against illegal encroachments last month. During the hearing, the court expressed displeasure at the investigation officer (IO) for failing to produce a progress report and directed the authorities to present the report in the next hearing. Subsequently, the court extended his bail until March 24 and adjourned the hearing. “I and my family owned these lands since 2001,” the opposition leader had said at the time. We were awarded the land on a 99-year lease by the relevant department.

Source: Pakistan Today March 13, 2021 09:11 UTC