The hearing of a case against doctor brothers, Dr Arshad Waheed and Dr Akmal Waheed, was put off till August 18 by Feroz Mehmood Bhatti, Judge, Anti Terrorism Court (ATC-II) for Karachi division on Saturday.
The adjournment came as the accused were not produced by the Jail authorities before the court due to security and logistic reasons.
Earlier, Ghulam Qadir Jatoi, advocate, filed power on behalf of two doctors and Syed Iqtidar Ali Hashmi, who was appointed special public prosecutor, in the case made his first appearance.
Both accused faces charges under section 207, 212, 215, 261 of PPC and section 31(C) of ATA, 1997.
They are accused of harbouring al Qaeda operatives and treating injured belonging to newly-discovered "Jund-Allah" activists, who sustained injuries in different acts of terrorism conducted by their accomplices in Karachi.
The court also allowed a meeting of Ghulam Qadir Jatoi, advocate, defence counsel with his clients inside the Karachi Central Prison.
The counsel met with clients for an hour as allowed by the court. Later, Jatoi told court reporters that his clients told him (counsel) that they were subjected to physical torture and coerced to sign different statements by the investigators while in their custody.
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