GILGIT: A court in Gilgit on Thursday acquitted progressive leaders Baba Jan and Iftikhar Hussain in a treason case.
“The two men were acquitted by a civil court in Gilgit in the case 64/2012 filed against them on April 28, 2012 by the government,” said Wajidullah, a spokesman for the Progress Youth Front (PYF), a party that Baba Jan belongs to.
Advocate Ehsan Ali, who fought the case of Jan and others, said that earlier the case was filed in an anti-terrorism court [ATC], which however rejected it because there was nothing in the case to substantiate the charges levelled against them.
