Karachi, Feb. 1 :    Karachi, Feb. 1:  Whether or not Pakistan is serious about putting L.K. Advani on its list of most wanted criminals, it has searched old records for the file naming him as an absconder in a case for conspiring to assassinate Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Investigators have dug up the records of the Shikarpur Colony conspiracy case at the Sindh High Court and the home department. This was coupled with 'official speculation' that a tribunal could be constituted to try the absconding persons in absentia. In an informal discussion about the home minister's 'implication', Sindh advocate-general Raja Qureshi said perhaps a tribunal could be set up for the absconding accused. 'One could make a request for an arrest warrant and let the law take its own course since the matter has acquired national and international importance,' he said. Qureshi, however, made it clear that he was not in a position to take any decision. The Shikarpur case was started following an explosion at 3 pm on September 10, 1947, at a house at Shikarpur Colony in Karachi, where Advani and other RSS members were staying. According to the files, the men were trying to make bombs in a room on the first floor of the house, owned by R.B. Tota Ram. One bomb went off, killing one person. The prosecution framed a conspiracy case for an attempt to assassinate Jinnah, then Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, senior Muslim League leader Khwaja Nazimuddin and some of his colleagues. During the probe, police had seized explosives and ammunition from the house. They had also found RSS literature and documents showing that explosives were being made in the house and used for terrorist activities throughout the country, the files said. The gang, which was found to have large funds at its disposal, used to hold secret meetings and even parade on the streets of the area dominated by the minority community. The case, initially taken up by the then additional district magistrate, Karachi, was later transferred to a special tribunal constituted under an Act of the Sindh Assembly on September 17, 1947. The tribunal had pronounced its verdict exactly a year later. The two principal accused, Khanchand Gopaldas and Nand Badlani, were sentenced. Other convicts got various prison terms. The case against the absconders, including Advani, was transferred to a dormant file, pending arrest. The convicts appealed in West Pakistan High Court but were extradited to India under an agreement between the two countries before their plea was heard.