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Jamaat-i-Islami leader Maghfirat Shah who had been arrested

CHITRAL, March 1: Civil Judge Mohammad Shoaib dismissed on Friday the bail petition of former district Nazim and local Jamaat-i-Islami leader Maghfirat Shah who had been arrested recently after explosives were found at the site of his under-construction hydro-power house.

The former nazim has been shifted to district jail from the DHQ hospital where he had been admitted two days ago because of cardiac problems.

He was booked under sections 5 and 6 of the Explosives Substance Act along with section 380 of the  Pakistan Penal Code.

According to police, the explosives had earlier been stolen from a warehouse of ...

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