Murderer of TV reporter remanded to police in arms case.

KARACHI -- The administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts on Tuesday remanded in police custody a suspect in a case pertaining to possession of illicit weapons.

Police claimed to have arrested Kamran, alias Zeeshan alias Shani, who had been reportedly sentenced to death in the murder case of Geo News reporter Wali Khan Babar, for possessing illicit arms.

Babar, a 28-year-old television journalist, was driving home from office when he was shot dead in Liaquatabad within the jurisdiction of the Supermarket police station on January 13, 2011.

An antiterrorism court in Kandhkot had awarded death sentence to Kamran and Faisal Mehmood, alias Mota, in absentia while four co-convicts were given life imprisonment in the present case on March 1, 2014.

On Tuesday, the investigating officer produced the suspect before the ATCs' administrative judge to seek his physical remand in an arms case.

He mentioned that the suspect was also required to be interrogated in connection with the murder case of journalist Wali Khan Babar in which he was reportedly avoiding arrest for 10 years.

Allowing the request, the judge remanded him in police custody, till June 30, with direction to the IO to produce him on the next date along with an investigation report.

According to the police, Kamran along with his...