KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Waseem Akhtar had ordered firing on the people coming to welcome the then chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary at the Karachi airport on May 12, 2007, police said Tuesday.
Officials, in the remand papers submitted before ATC judge, acquired by Geo News, stated that whatever happened in Karachi on May 12 was carried out on the directives of Akhtar and he has confessed to it.
They further requested for the remand of the suspect at which the ATC allowed the police to grill Waseem Akhtar in the jail, the remand papers further said.
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He did not confess anything. Police did.