The Sindh government has appointed the South district and sessions judge as the inquiry officer to conduct the judicial inquiry of the killing of Mansoor Mukhtar and his elder brother Masood Mukhtar. His sister-in-law was also injured in the armed attack in the wee hours of Tuesday in PIB Colony. This was stated in a notification issued by the Home Department on Thursday. The terms of reference of the inquiry shall be to ascertain the circumstance and causes leading to the murders and injuries in the incident; to ascertain the losses of lives and other properties like vehicles as after-effects of the murders and violence in the metropolis; to ascertain the role of the law-enforcement agencies and other political concerns in the violence after the incident of March 27; to fix the responsibility and recommend the action to be taken against the persons directly or indirectly involved in the double-murder and violence in Karachi. The inquiry officer has to submit his report within 30 days to the government, it added.
REMAND EXTENDED: South Judicial Magistrate Hatim Ali Solangi extended physical remand of the accused in the mushaira firing case for one more day. The Boat Basin police presented the accused Munir Khan before the court after completion of his two-day remand with the request of its extension for further investigation. The accused was arrested by the police after the firing incident outside the venue of the mushaira, which was organised by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Sunday evening in the Clifton area. According to the first information report of the incident, a group of armed men opened indiscriminate firing near the venue of the mushaira to attack the participants, but failed because of the presence of police personnel.