PESHAWAR: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) dismissed on Monday

the bail petition of a suspected militant arrested and charged

with the murder of a former director of the Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI).
The ATC judge, Salim Jan Khan, dismissed the bail petition of Makail
Mehmood who, the police said, was arrested along with a motorcycle used
in the attack on former director of the ISI, Professor Abdul Lateef.
During the hearing of the bail petition, the public prosecutor submitted
that the militant was involved in the murder. He submitted that the
accused belonged to Akora Khattak in Nowshera district and was a
member of a banned militant organisation.
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), he said, had arrested the
accused from Hayatabad in Peshawar on April 2 along with the motorcycle
used in the attack.The prosecutor stated that the CTD had also arrested
Haris Naseem, codenamed Khalid and the nephew of the slain official,
from Hayatabad for his role in the murder.
The CTD Peshawar, through an official communiqu, had claimed that
Haris Naseem had joined a terrorist organisation in 2009 and had been
arrested from Hayatabad. During the investigation, the accused had
disclosed that the murder plan was finalised in Hayatabad. It said the
accused and his accomplices executed the mission to kill Abdul Lateef.
The arrested terrorist disclosed the names of his accomplices, including
Makail Mehmood, it said.
The former director of the ISI was shot dead by unknown armed men in
Phase-VI Hayatabad on March 22 this year. As per the police officials,
Abdul Lateef had come to visit his brother in Hayatabad where he was
fired at by the unidentified motorcyclists.
The police said the deceased belonged to Tehkal and was currently living
in Hayatabad Phase-VII. He was also a professor and was teaching at the
private sector Qurtaba University.
The police said the 61-year-old Abdul Lateef had retired as a regional
director from the ISI some three years ago. He had served on key
positions, including first secretary in Pakistans embassy in Afghanistan in
the 1990s.
Police said the deceased was recently appointed as the dean of a
university in Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan and was finalising plans to join
the university.