Tag: Murder

RAWALPINDI - The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) hearing the Benazir Bhtuuo's assassination case on Tuesday sent former City Police Officer (CPO) Saud Aziz and Superintendent of Police (SP) Khurram Shahzad on a 14-day judicial remand.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), after completing investigation, produced both the accused police officers in the court of ATC judge Rana Nisar Ahmed, who rejected their bail plea and sent them on remand. The court fixed next hearing on February

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday disposed of the murder case of former attorney general for Pakistan, Muhammad Sardar Khan after it was informed that the main accused had been taken into custody in Dubai on the request of the Islamabad police and legal process was underway for his extradition.
Appearing on notice before a four-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman

ISLAMABAD - Refusing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz group's leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif's claims, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said their statement alleging that federal government wanted to implicate them in the assassination of former governor Punjab Salman Taseer was "really puzzling."
In a statement, Kaira also rejected the notion that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had came to their rescue. "This government is led by the PM. The government and the PM

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has revealed that the federal government had planned to implicate him and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in the murder of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer after "colouring the assassination as a political design".
"All was set to get a case registered under Section 302 against us, but the prime minister opposed the decision," Nawaz spilled the beans in his address at a book launching ceremony on Friday.

KASUR - The police have registered a murder case against Farman Ali and his parents for allegedly setting his wife on fire at village Rai Kalan. Salma Bibi's father, Maqsood Ahmed, alleged his daughter had been burnt by her in-laws. He added she often complained of the injustices of her in-laws.
Land retrieved from illegal occupants will be auctioned: On the orders of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the district administration has decided to auction the 18-kanal commercial

WASHINGTON - The wrong men were convicted of murdering US reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in 2002, and US officials stood in the way of the real murderers being brought to justice for the grisly crime, a report released Thursday says.
British-Pakistani Omar Sheikh and three other men who were convicted of killing Pearl were not even present when the Wall Street Journal reporter was murdered, says the Pearl Project report, which was led by

ISLAMABAD - Calling the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) a "cowardly party" for not standing by their leaders in difficult times, PML-Q central leaders on Wednesday put the ruling party to shame for not defending slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer against extremists.
A source told Pakistan Today that a five-member government committee called on PML-Q leaders at Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's residence to inform them of the economic situation in the country, but faced severe criticism

LAHORE - Bringing to an end all speculations about the motives behind the murder of Justice Javed Iqbal's parents, the Lahore Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested the killer.
Police identified the killer as Naveed Iqbal, stepbrother of Justice Iqbal, who murdered his father Malik Abdul Majeed and stepmother Zarina with the help of his two accomplices, over monetary issues. The accused initially denied the charges before the media, but later admitted to planning the

THE HAGUE - The prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon filed his indictment on Monday for the 2005 murder of premier Rafiq Hariri as Beirut's neighbours backed renewed mediation to calm rising tensions.
Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare submitted his long-awaited indictment under wraps, but speculation was rife that it named the Hezbollah militant group in connection with the massive car bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others on the Beirut seafront on Valentine's Day six

TEHRAN - Iran said on Monday it will sue its archfoe Israel for the murder last year in Tehran of senior nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran's complaint against the Zionist regime will be lodged to international bodies soon," Iran's acting foreign minister and atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA. Salehi said Tehran had "finished gathering evidences of the Zionist regime's involvement in the assassination

RAWALPINDI - Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) judge on Friday granted eight-day physical remand of two former police officers to the FIA team probing Benazir Bhutto's murder. Former Rawalpindi city police officer Saud Aziz and his subordinate officer, SP Rawal Town Khuram Shahzad, were produced before special court Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed Khan.
The judge granted eight-day remand to FIA, as its prosecutors pleaded the court that the remand was essential to determine the real culprits

LAHORE - The Pakistan People's Party government will conduct a judicial inquiry into the assassination of slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, PPP ministers vowed on Friday.
Talking to reporters outside Taseer's residence after offering condolences to his family, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira declared Taseer's murder a tragedy for PPP.
Kaira said the incident had exposed that a fresh wave of extremism had struck the country and the elimination of this mindset was

LAHORE - Investigation agencies find themselves in a difficult position, as they probe into the killing of parents of Supreme Court (SC) Justice Javed Iqbal, Pakistan Today has learnt. Police think that fingerprints collected from the telephone used by the murdered couple might lead to a breakthrough in the murder case. Lahore Police sources told Pakistan Today that investigators have grilled 11 persons including four women and two watchmen but have made no progress so far. According

ISLAMABAD - The tragic incident of murder of the parents of senior most judge in the Supreme Court Justice Javed Iqbal could not be ruled out as a kind of message to the judiciary not to take up important cases like that of missing persons, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Asma Jehangir said on Wednesday.
Such type of messages, if given to the judiciary, would not be tolerated, she said adding that as per rights guaranteed in the constitution, the state was bound to

LAHORE - Governor Punjab-designate Sardar Latif Khosa on Wednesday said the murder of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer's was planned and expressed the determination to expose the culprits behind the conspiracy. Khosa was talking to the bereaved family of Salman Taseer at their residence in Lahore. Talking to reporters later, Khosa said the government would follow the policies of Benazir Bhutto and continue with politics of reconciliation. He said the most critical issues facing

ISLAMABAD - Calling former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer a decent and a brave man, US Vice President Joseph Biden on Wednesday said the US was saddened by Taseer's cold-blooded murder.
In a reference to the assassination of the Punjab governor, at his joint press conference with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Biden said, "Societies that applaud such actions end up being consumed by those actions." "The United States is saddened by cold-blooded murder of a decent, brave

LAHORE - Lahore Police on Wednesday initiated an inquiry in the murder case of Supreme Court Justice Javed Iqbal's parents. Investigators have collected blood samples for DNA test and finger prints of the three ladies and two security guards, whom the police had taken into custody for interrogation, to match with the samples of Justice Iqbal's parents to find the killers.
The police officials have decided to collect blood samples and finger prints of all the guests who visited