KARACHI: Four witnesses picked out on Friday 10 Muttahida Qaumi Movement workers during identification parades before a judicial magistrate in two cases pertaining to sedition, anti-state offences and attack on media houses.

Police produced Mohammed Waheed,Adil,FareedAhmed,Hasnain Alam, Masroor Ahmed, Rashid, Mohsin Siddiqui, Asif Khan, Niaz Ahmed and Jawaid Shaukat in court and after completing legal formalities a judicial magistrate (south) conducted the identification parades.

The judicial sources said that four eyewitnesses, two police officers and as many security guards of a news channel had rightly picked out the suspects among the dummies and assigned their role in the commissioning of the alleged of fences. The suspects, who are in police custody on physical remand, will be reproduced before the administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts on Saturday.Theyhave beenbookedintwocases registered at the Artillery Madian police station on multiple allegations, including sedition and offences against the state, after the Aug 22 riots.

A highly-provocative speech of the London-based MQM chief on Aug 22 outside the Karachi Press Club triggered theviolentprotest,arson attacks and ransacking of media houses and left a passer-by dead.

Three party leaders, MNA Kanwar Naveed Jameel, Qamar Mansoor and Shahid Pasha, with around 40 workers, including three women, had already been remanded to prison in these cases.

Meanwhile, an antiterrorism court issued on Friday notices to prosecution on three applications moved by the two detained MQM leaders for Saturday.

Kanwar Jameel and Shahid Pasha through their counsel moved applications seekingbetterfacilitiesin prison while the lawyer for the detained MNA also bled another application asking the court to discharge him since he was not present during the anti-state speech.