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What led to MQM-P chief’s release soon after arrest last night?   

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) chief Farooq Sattar was released after a brief detention last night on his assurance that he would appear in Anti-terrorism court, which had issued his non-bailable arrest warrant in different cases.

AbbTakk News has obtained the inside story as to what led to release of the MQM-P chief soon after his arrest last night.

Sources said that MQM-P chief assured police high-ups and a high official of Sindh government that he would appear before the courts in different cases.

After the assurances, Chakiwara police let Sattar to go from the backdoor of the police station on the directives of Additional IG Karachi Mushtaq Mehar.

However, despite assurance Dr Sattar did not appear before the court today.

Sattar was arrested from the Sharae Faisal area of the metropolis while he was returning from a private wedding function. He was traveling with his protocol, which included guards and his driver. Protocol members were searched and were not arrested. The MQM-P chief have been nominated in as many as 34 cases of listening to incendiary and hateful speech of MQM founder Altaf Hussain.

On the other hand, sources claimed that investigation of three cases of inflammatory speeches of Altaf Hussain was transferred to SSP Rao Anwar.