Khan, the chief of Tehreek-e-Insaf (Justice Party), who came here defying the ban, was sent back to Islamabad from the Karachi International Airport.

“There is a ban on him,” Waseem Akhtar, the Home Affairs advisor of Sindh government, said, adding that the former Pakistan cricket captain was told about the ban before he was boarding a Karachi-bound PIA flight and he should have upheld the law of the land instead of trying to defy it. The restriction on Khan’s entry was originally ordered by the provincial government following the May 12 violence in the city and was regularly re-imposed over the past months.

 DAWOOD’S EXTRADITION request
New Delhi, PTI: Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto has said she will certainly look into India’s request for extradition of Mumbai serial blasts accused Dawood Ibrahim, who is believed to be in Karachi.

“We will certainly look into the request by the Indian government,” she told Karan Thapar on his programme India Tonight telecast on CNN-IBN.