QUETTA: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Quetta on Thursday dropped terrorism charge against former Balochistan legislator Abdul Majeed Achakzai in a case pertaining to running over and killing a traffic sergeant in 2017.
ATC Judge Muneer Mari announced the verdict on a plea filed by Achakzai, seeking deletion of section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act against him.
Accepting the applicant’s request, the judge sent the case to a sessions court for trial.
Achakzai, who is out on bail, was booked for running over and killing traffic sub-inspector Haji Attaullah on June 20, 2o17 near GPO Chowk in Quetta.
Initially, the case was registered against unknown persons, but a video showing his vehicle running over the traffic officer emerged, prompting the police to arrest him. He was then released on bail against a surety bond of Rs5,00,000.
According to the police, traffic sergeant Attaullah died after hit by a rashly driven land cruiser while he was performing his duty at the GPO Chowk on Zarghoon Road.
Achakzai was later booked in two more cases – one pertaining to a kidnapping registered at the Satellite Town police station back in 2009.
It merits mention here that Majeed Achakzai is also a close relative of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai. He was an MPA from the PB-13 constituency in Qilla Abdullah district.
