Summary The Islamabad IGP says Sikandar had been raising funds for a banned organization in Dubai.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Inspector-General Police Islamabad Sikandar Hayat has said that accused of Islamabad firing incident, Sikandar, had links with a banned militant outfit.
Addressing a news conference on Monday‚ the IG said that Sikandar had been raising funds for a banned organization in Dubai.
He said Sikandar was arrested by Dubai Police in 1998.
Hayat said one of the reasons for delay in handling the accused was presence the live media coverage.
He said there should be code of ethics for coverage of such incidents.
Earlier, the court extended physical remand of Sikandar’s wife for two days.
She was earlier sent on a seven-day physical remand and a one-day transit remand prior to that.
At end of the seven-day remand, she was taken to an anti-terrorism court.
Following the judge’s ruling, Kanwal was handed over to police for an additional two-day physical remand.
On August 15, Sikandar had taken hostage the heavily guarded capital for five hours in a standoff that ended in a dramatic way.
Waving two semi-automatic guns and occasionally firing into the air, Sikandar was accompanied by his wife and children throughout the tense drama that took place close to Islamabad’s political headquarter.
