The Bannu Bank of Peshawar High Court on Wednesday accepted the bail statements by legislators Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar in the case of Kharqamar's attack.
Judge Nasir Mehmood, who heard the bail requests of Dawar and Wazir in Bannu, asked the MNAs to report to the police once a month.
They will be released after the legal formalities are completed. The MNAs have been asked to provide bail bonds worth Rs1 million each.
"The bank has granted us a conditional bond," said Abdul Latif Afridi, the lawyer representing the MNAs, adding that the 21-D Anti-Terror Law allows a judge to impose certain conditions on admission to the bond.
"The judge gave a verbal order; we are waiting for the written one," said Afridi Dawn.
The two MNAs, who are leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), were initially charged in a FIR registered at the Police Department of the Fight Against Terrorism (CTD), Bannu, on May 26 after a confrontation among PTM members and Army personnel near the Kharqamar checkpoint in North Waziristan, which killed 13 people and injured several people.
Separately, they were charged in the instant case registered on June 7 at the CTD police station, Bannu, after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on a road in Doga Macha, North Waziristan, when a convoy Army passed through the area. The explosion had left four army officers: a lieutenant colonel, a commander, a captain and a havildar spear, martyred.
An anti-terrorist court in Bannu last month had granted bail to PTM leaders in the second case related to the Doga Macha explosion.
Both Wazir and Dawar were already in CTD custody at the time of the IED explosion ─ had been arrested after the attack on the Kharqamar checkpoint on May 26. Wazir had been arrested the day of the attack, while Dawar surrendered to the security forces a few days later.
Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1505918/mnas-ali-wazir-mohsin-dawar-granted-bail-in-kharqamar-attack-case