LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday withdrew its orders to initiate the process to declare the two sisters of the PTI chief Imran Khan as proclaimed offenders (POs) in the Lahore corps commander`s house attack case.

Earlier, the court had started the process of declaring 22 PTI workers and leaders, including former ministers and sisters of the party chief, as POs on a request of the investigating officer (IO).

On Tuesday, the IO told the court that the names of Ms Aleema Khan and Ms Uzma Khan, the sisters of Imran Khan, were included in the list of the POs by mistake. He said both women had already secured pre-arrest bail in the case from the court.

Judge Abher Gul Khan allowed the request and withdrew the order to the extent of the former prime minister`s sisters.

The judge had directed the prosecution to publish a proclamation in the national newspapers for the appearance of the suspects on Aug 16.

I DE NT I F IC A T ION PARADE: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday allowed the Sarwar Road police a six-day physical remand of five PTI workers and sent another to jail for identification parade in the Jinnah House attack case.

The police presented the suspects Sarfraz Ahmad, Mukhtar Ahmad, Qaiser Butt, Shamshad Ali and Mohsin Ali before the court.

The IO told the court that the identification parade ofthesuspectshad been completed in the jail wherein all of them were found guilty. He asked the court to grant a 10-day physical remand of the suspects for investigation of the case.

However, Judge Abher Gul Khan granted a sixday remand to the police.

He allowed the police to shift Attique Riaz, husband of PTI`s detained worker Sanam Javed, to jail for his identification parade in the Jinnah House attack case.

A counsel for the suspect argued the police arrested his client only for pursuing the case of his wife.

Thejudge observed the suspect would be released if not found guilty in the identification parade.

Separately, the judge extended the judicial remand of 25 other PTI workers in the May 9 cases. The judge directed the IOs to submit the challans against the suspects without further delay.