Tag: Probe

Accusing the intelligence agencies of having failed to detect Osama bin Laden’s presence “right under their noses” in Abbottabad and rejecting the military investigation,...

The Supreme Court (SC) was told on Tuesday that the federal and Punjab government had decided to make public the investigation report of Justice...

A petition was filed in the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday seeking formation of a high-level commission to investigate the direct United States military...

Representatives of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Punjab Bar Council (PbBC), Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) and Lahore...

Pakistan’s Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani on Sunday promised that ‘heads will roll’ following an investigation into how Osama bin Laden was able to...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident at Gujjar Khan and posting of the SP concerned as OSD....

ISLAMABAD/lAHORE - In what may be termed a pre-alliance sweetener to lure the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leadership into a half-cooked power-sharing deal, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government removed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Additional Director General Zafar Ahmed Qureshi from heading the team investigating the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam, a case in which the PML-Q's Moonis Elahi is a suspect currently in FIA custody.
Ever since

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

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board's inquiry committee awaits wicket-keeper Zulqarnian Haider when he returns to Pakistan. The run-away wicket-keeper, after withdrawing his asylum application from the British immigration office recently, is expected to return to Pakistan on April 24 and would be facing inquiry for leaving the team without taking the team officials into confidence.
He fled to the UK amidst Pakistan and South Africa series played in the UAE in November last year.

LAHORE - Investigation into the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam took a new turn when the newly-appointed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Malik Iqbal appointed another investigator to the same case and reduced the scope of investigations handled by Additional Director General (ADG) Zafar Qureshi, the investigator already appointed to the case.
Well-placed sources in the FIA told Pakistan Today that Iqbal had taken the step on special orders

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. human rights chief called on Friday for an independent investigation into the deaths of 34 people at an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq after Iraqi security forces moved against it last week.
"It now seems certain that at least 34 people were killed in Camp Ashraf, including seven or more women," U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said. "Most were shot, and some appear to have been crushed to death, presumably by vehicles."
A U.N. spokesman said

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency has summoned its former director general Waseem Ahmed for questioning in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) financial scam, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
Waseem Ahmed resigned from his office some days ago after the Supreme Court ordered the government to remove him allegedly for 'changing the direction' of high-profile cases, including last year's Haj scam and the NICL case. In his resignation letter to Prime

GENEVA - UN investigators said on Friday they would start next week to probe alleged human rights violations committed in Libya by both forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and rebels trying to topple him.
The independent three-member commission of inquiry, headed by American war crimes expert Cherif Bassiouni, declined to reveal their exact travel schedule but said that it would stop first in Egypt and also would visit Tunisia and Libya.
He said the team would gather testimony

SINGAPORE - Singapore police said on Thursday they are investigating a report lodged by the Asian golf tour alleging their former finance and human resources manager had gone missing and a sum of money was unaccounted for.
The Asian Tour said former employee Adrian Lee had disappeared and that they had reported the matter to police.
The tour said company funds were missing "following internal checks" and that all attempts to contact Lee had been unsuccessful.
"We have

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

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

LARKANA - The report on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was presented in a meeting of the PPP Central Executive Committee (CEC) for the first time on Sunday, which decided not to make it public.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, after a thorough briefing on the investigation into the former premier's assassination, said the premature release of the entire investigation report could legally sabotage the case currently in progress.
"It could also allow the conspirators