ISLAMABAD: The anti-terrorist court in Islamabad on Wednesday sent Kanwal‚ the wife of Sikandar who held Islamabad hostage for over five and a half hours on August 15, to jail on a 14-day remand in Islamabad incident case.
Kanwal also filed a bail petition in the court which will hear the petition on Friday.
The court also ordered to hand over children of accused Sikandar to their grandfather.
On August 15, the gunman, Sikandar, accompanied by his wife and children brought Islamabad to a standstill by waving two sub-machine guns and occasionally firing into the air. The standoff that lasted for five hours eventually ended after Sikandar and his wife were shot and arrested when the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Zamurd Khan lunged at him.
