Court reserves ruling on Sanaullah's plea for release of footages in drug case.

LAHORE -- An anti-narcotics court on Saturday reserved its verdict in a plea filed by PML-N MNA and former Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah for release of his vehicle and provision of footages allegedly possessed by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) as evidence, and adjourned the hearing till February 8 in a narcotics case.

As the hearing resumed, the ANF's prosecutor argued that Sanaullah's lawyers have been using delaying tactics, and pleaded with the court to conduct proceedings of the case on a daily basis.

To this, judge Shakir Hassan asked the prosecutor, 'How could I hear the case on a daily basis? I postpone the cases daily, I don't have a stenographer and the car in which I travel is a 'third-class' car [...] all these works are to be done by the ministry of law and justice and you are saying to hold hearings daily.'

'Both sides have completed their arguments [...] I am reserving my judgment in the application, the decision will be written when my stenographer arrives,' the judge added.

After appearing in the courtroom, the PML-N leader spoke to the media and claimed that false and baseless case was lodged against him, and urged Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Safron) and Narcotics Control Shehryar Afridi to justify his stance in the court.

'The government has no...