Tag: Murder

ISLAMABADb - Opposition Leader Nisar Ali Khan on Monday said that 99.9 percent Pakistanis believed that the hanging of former prime minister and PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was unjustified and he himself believed that Bhutto was not given a fair trial. During his speech in parliament on the presidential address, Nisar alleged that the government was trying to kill two birds with one stone by filing a reference to reopen the Bhutto case with the apex court.
He said it was

ISLAMABAD - A petition, seeking initiation of contempt of court proceedings, was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday against Justice (r) Nasim Hassan Shah for calling former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's death sentence a "judicial murder".
Justice (r) Shah was a member of the seven-member CS bench and one of the four judges, who had convicted Bhutto. However, later talking to reporters he had said the verdict was a judicial murder. The petition was filed by Tariq Asad and

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Waraich has said that 90 percent of the investigation into the Benazir Bhutto assassination case has been completed and it will be publicised as soon as it completes.
Waraich was presiding over a meeting with representatives of all districts of Sahiwal division at PPP Punjab office on Thursday. He said that the names of the people involved in BB's assassination would soon be uncovered. He condemned the Punjab

LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) observed that the prosecution has failed to unearth any incriminating material that connects the former Rawalpindi CPO Saud Aziz and an SP Shahzad Khurram with Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
The bench observed that despite keeping the said people in a 24-day remand, the joint investigation team of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) could not establish the allegations under which both police officers had been charged. The

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari who is also co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) told his party's provincial lawmakers (MPAs) from Punjab on Wednesday night that the government had made significant inroads in the investigation into the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, but the details would be made public only when the party was not in power.
A source told Pakistan Today that President Zardari said the government could not share the exclusive

LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court Tuesday granted bail to Saud Aziz, former City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi, and then SP Rawalpindi City Khurram Shehzad in the murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
The bench comprising LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry and Justice Ijazul Ahsan allowed bail to Saud Aziz and Khurram Shahzad on surety bonds of Rs 1 million each. The court also directed the accused to surrender their passports to stop them

LAHORE - A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday adjourned the hearing of bail petition of former Rawalpindi city police officer (CPO) Saud Aziz, accused of involvement in former PM Benazir Bhutto's murder, until today (Tuesday).
Aziz's counsel Khawaja Sultan, said that his client's name is not included in the challan of the former PM's murder and the UN commission's report on Benazir's murder. He said that the former Rawalpindi CPO was innocent. Sultan said that three

LAHORE - Hanjarwal Investigation Police on Sunday claimed to have solved the mystery of a murder involving a beheaded body and arrested the victim's wife and brother for allegedly killing him. According to details, on February 10, Hanjerwal Police recovered a man's beheaded body from Hanjerwal Area.
After registering a case, police started probing into the matter and took fingerprints of the body. The investigation officer sent the finger prints to the National Database

LAHORE - Anti-terrorism court (ATC) judge Tahir Pervaiz on Saturday acquitted underworld don Khawaja Aqeel alias Gogi Butt of all charges in the Arif Ameer alias Tipu Truckanwala murder case. The court acquitted Gogi by accepting his application filed under Section 295-K of the Pakistan Penal Code. The accused submitted that he was innocent and not involved in any case due to which he might be acquitted in the Truckanwala murder case.
Truckanwala was shot dead at the Allama

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday ordered registration of a murder case against Thatta district police officers and a custom officer allegedly involved in torturing a person to death. The SHC division bench comprising Justice Athar Saeed and Justice Irfan Sadat Khan was hearing a petition filed by Ilyas Babar, who had submitted that a police party headed by DSP Manzoor Ahmed and Inspector Ibraheem Pitai along with customs officer Mitha Khan had entered his house in Thatta

LAHORE - The Lahore Session court on Wednesday formally charged Raymond Davis on two counts of murder at a hearing held at Kot Lakhpat Jail, a police official said, in a move that may further strain relations with the United States.
Raymond Davis, 36, shot dead two Pakistanis in the eastern Punjab city on Jan. 27 following what he described as an attempted armed robbery. He said he acted in self-defence and the United States says he has diplomatic immunity and should be

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-N's Siddiqul Farooq on Monday alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari was involved in Benazir Bhutto's murder and that Rehman Malik and Babar Awan were his accomplices. He went on to say the Zardari 'tried his best' to remove all proofs his involvement in the murder. Addressing a press conference here, Farooq said Benazir Bhutto had security concerns and felt threat from Musharraf and the Chaudhrys.
"But President Zardari has sent one of them in

LAHORE - Shahbaz Bhatti's murder was 'deplorable' but they will not allow paving way for amendment in the blasphemy laws, under the cover of this incident, Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) Secretary General Qari Zawar Bahadar said on Thursday in a press conference at the Lahore Press Club. He said that JUP has decided to hold Tahafz-e-Namoos-i-Risalat Conference at Minar-i-Pakistan on 27th of this month. He said if the 'rulers' tried to amend the blasphemy laws or release Raymond Davis,

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LAHORE - Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yousaf Aoujla on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of double murder case against Raymond Davis until March 16, after handing over the copy of challan to the accused. The court continued hearing the double murder case in Kot Lakhpat jail where the accused is being held. The counsel for the complainant said, "This is a clear case and all evidence is against Raymond Davis so the court may frame the charge on the accused."
The

ISLAMABAD - An Anti Terrorism Court on Saturday adjourned the hearing of Taseer assassination case until March 26. The judge adjourned the hearing after two more witnesses recorded their statements, said Malik Mohammad Rafique, one of counsel of Qadri.
The witnesses, a police draftsman Khuram Shehzad and an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Gul Faraz, told the court about the scene and the post-mortem examination. Meanwhile, around 150 people rallied outside the prison chanting

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Friday passed a unanimous resolution condemning the murder of Federal Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti and declaring it "another attack on disturbing peace and progress of Pakistan". The resolution was jointly moved by PPP, MQM and PML-F members including PPP's Sindh Electric Power Minister Shazia Marri, Dr Sikandar Mandhro, Pitambar Sewhani, and Dr Ahmed Ali Shah, MQM's Khawaja Izharul Hassan and PML-F's Nusrat Saher Abbasi.
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