Tag: Murder

New al Qaeda chief linked to murder of Daniel Pearl

Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian militant recently appointed interim leader of al Qaeda operations, has been linked to the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl...

ATC issues contempt notice to FIA DG in BB murder case

The Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday issued contempt of court notice to FIA Director General Malik Iqbal for separating the investigation officer from...

Hearing of Taseer’s murder adjourned till 28 May

Proceedings regarding the killing of former Governor Punjab, Sulman Taseer could not be held due to absence of Special Judge of Anti Terrorism Court...

Man awarded death sentence in triple murder case

Additional District and Sessions Judge Chakwal Nisar Baig awarded death sentence to an accused of a famous triple murder case of village Kahut of...

Woman lawyer’s murder remains an unsolved mystery

The murder of a woman lawyer at the Badiyan Road Interchange remains shrouded in mystery, as relatives of the victim seem to be avoiding...

Lawyers condemn female lawyer’s murder

Lawyers boycotted court proceedings in the subordinate judiciary on Monday demanding arrest of the murderers of 37-year-old female lawyer Anjum Akbar who was shot...

13-year-old boy murdered

A 13-year-old boy was murdered by unidentified men near Nadeem Park, Ghulshan-e-Ravi on Monday. According to the police, the victim, identified as Mohsin Khan, was...

Police officer escapes murder attempt

A senior police officer escaped a murder attempt in the outskirts of Quetta on Sunday. Balochistan Constabulary Police Superindent Manzoor Bangulzai was passing by...

Two women murdered at Barkat Market beauty parlour

Two women were found slaughtered under mysterious circumstances inside a beauty parlour located in Barkat Market in the Garden Town Police Station precincts on...

AG submits record of murder case against ZAB

Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq on Friday submitted in the Supreme Court (SC) the original record of the murder case registered against former prime...

MQM wants city to share its grief over party’s man murder

Traders and transporters announced on Saturday that they would observe a day of mourning on today (Sunday) on the call of Muttahida Qaumi Movement...

Magistrate records statement in Taseer murder case

A anti-terrorism court recorded Islamabad Duty Magistrate Muhammad Ali Randhawa’s statement at the Adiala Jail while hearing Salmaan Taseer murder case on Saturday. ATC...

Aziz indicted on murder charge

RAWALPINDI - An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday indicted former Lal Masjid khateeb Maulvi Abdul Aziz on charges of murdering a member of Pakistan Rangers.
His wife Umme Hassan, daughter Tayyaba and 21 other people were also indicted on the same charge in the court of ATC judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan, who heard the case of the Special Forces' attack on Lal Masjid on July 3, 2007.
The attack, launched during the regime of former president Pervez Musharraf against

Court orders spy agencies, LEAs to probe GDA official’s murder

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court on Monday issued directives to intelligence and law enforcement agencies to investigate the murder of Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) official Muhammad Arif Noor and submit the inquiry report in court within a month. A division bench comprising Justices Gulzar Ahmed and Shahid Anwar Bajwa was hearing a constitutional petition filed by Arif Noor's brother Abid Noor, seeking to locate the whereabouts of his brother when he had gone missing on October 31

Protest held against police for protecting murder suspect

LAHORE - Dozens of people held a protest outside the Lahore Press Club on Monday against the Ferozwala Police for allegedly protecting the accused who killed an 18-year-old youth on late Sunday. The angry protesters placed the dead body of victim Muhammad Zubair, son of Nasir Mehmood, in front of the Lahore Press Club and chanted slogans against the role of the Ferozwala Police towards the accused. The protesters also blocked the road and burnt tyres. The protestors, including women

Three held for the murder of Maulana Showkat

SRINAGAR - The Police said that they have arrested three persons connected with the murder of the religious scholar, Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah. He was killed in a blast in Srinagar on April 8.
SM Sahai, Inspector General of Police for Kashmir zone, told a media conference in Srinagar that the conspiracy to eliminate Maulana Showkat was hatched in the Srinagar Central Jail some time back.
"A radical religio-political outfit namely 'Sout-ul-Haq' and some other radical

A judicial murder?

PAKISTAN TODAY SPECIAL - While there is generally political consensus across Pakistan now, 32 years after former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) was sent to the gallows, that the verdict amounted to "judicial murder", the politicians and mainstream newspapers of the time had appreciated the way his trial was conducted, terming the judicial system in Pakistan "independent and impartial".
Bhutto was hanged on April 4, 1979, and the next day, daily Jang and daily