A court in Karachi issued non-bailable arrest warrants for nine Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders for violating the loudspeaker act.
According to sources, the nine MQM leaders include Farooq Sattar, Waseem Akhtar and Haider Abbas Rizvi.
Earlier, the case was lodged against the MQM leaders including Faisal Sabzawari, Kanwar Navid Jameel, Mohammad Hussain, Kamal Pasha, Nasreen Jalil and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui at Soldier Bazaar Police Station.
The court then issued the warrants and ordered to present the suspects before it on January 22.
The Sindh High Court had granted pre-arrest interim bail to Waseem Akhtar till January 18 in two cases after submission of Rs50,000 bond against each earlier today.