ATC hands man who threatened judges into FIA custody for a week.

ISLAMABAD -- An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday remanded a man accused of threatening judges into the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for seven days.

Judge Jawad Abbas Hassan heard Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza's case and ordered the FIA to conduct the suspect's medical checkup and submit a report in the court.

The judge asked the FIA what they want to recover from the suspect. The FIA said that they want to ask him about some things and recover some things too, adding that he runs a web channel called Iqra too.

Mirza's lawyer, on the other hand, said that he is a good man and a scholar. He also suffers from cardiac problems, he added.

On June 24, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Qazi Faez Isa had filed an application for an FIR to be registered against Mirza for threatening her husband.

Sarina Isa said the man, whom she tentatively identified as Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza, threatened Justice Isa's life. She enclosed a USB with a video of the threat.

She quoted the man as saying 'whoever is caught involved in embezzlement, even if he's Justice Qazi Faez Isa...should be put before a firing squad'. He also...