Tag: Probe

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday that India provided the Samjhota Express blast investigation report to Pakistan and both countries agreed to talk on Kashmir and other pending issues on an equal basis. Talking to reporters outside Parliament House, he said dialogue between Pakistan and India was the only way forward to address all outstanding issues between the two countries. He said "cricket diplomacy" provided a chance to end the communication gap.

DAMASCUS - Syria is launching an immediate probe into the deaths of "civilians and troops" in Daraa and Latakia, two cities that have emerged as the focal points of protests, state media reported Thursday.
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has charged the head of the judges' council with forming a committee to begin an investigation, effective immediately, into the deaths of civilians and troops in the governorates of Daraa and Latakia," read a report on the state-run SANA news

NEW DELHI - India said on Wednesday that the probe into the Samjhauta Express bomb blasts, in which 43 Pakistanis were killed, was still on to find out identities of all perpetrators of the crime.
A day after the talks between the home secretaries of Pakistan and India, where Islamabad wanted to know the progress made so far, the Indian Home Ministry said that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted painstaking investigation into the 2007 bombing.
The ministry in a

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza has ordered the IGP to investigate the reasons for the fire that destroyed the shops located in the historic Empress Market in Saddar area on Sunday.
He asked the IGP to form an investigative team to look into the reasons behind the fire, which engulfed over hundred shops. The minister also directed the IGP to figure out ways - in consultation with the city government - to provide the affected shopkeepers alternative places to run

ISLAMABAD - In a major confidence-building measure, Pakistan on Tuesday showed willingness to permit Indian officials to undertake a visit to the country for investigation into the Mumbai attacks.
The important decision was made by Pakistan at the end of the two-day interior secretaries talks held in New Delhi on March 28 and 29th -- a day ahead of the highly-anticipated Cricket World Cup semi-final between the two states, where Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will host his

GENEVA - Both Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have failed to make credible progress in investigating claims of war crimes committed during the 2008 conflict in Gaza, a UN committee said on Monday.
In a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, Mary McGowan Davis, who heads the committee, acknowledged that Israel has dedicated "significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza." However, only a fraction of these

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam has accused the Punjab government of trying to influence the investigation against Moonis Elahi.
In a press conference at Muslim League House on Sunday PML-Q leader Kamil Ali Agha Kamil Ali Agha said the cases were registered against Moonis when he was away from Pakistan. He said that Moonis had returned to face the cases which showed that he had nothing to do hide.
Kamil alleged that FIA Additional Director Zafar Ahmad

ISLAMABAD - After a lapse of 45 days - the deadline set by the government for the judicial commission to complete its probe into the sugar price increase scam - no one from political and government circles knows if the judicial commission has presented its inquiry report to the government or not, or what are the investigation's findings in case the probe has been completed, and who was behind the scandal.
A single-member judicial commission on sugar price hike scam comprising

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday ordered the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to establish a commission to probe into the case of written off loans. A two-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by the chief justice was conducting hearing on cases of written off loans. SBP lawyer Syed Iqbal Haider submitted that according to the bank's circular No 29, loans could be written off in certain conditions. The CJP, however, said that the misuse of the circular would be

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to expedite investigation against the accused involved in the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) corruption scam. A two-member SC bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Ghulam Rabbani directed the lawyer for PSM, Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, to present an interim forensic report within a month.
Ebrahim told the court that PSM management had engaged a company to prepare the forensic

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Flood Commission - set up to probe overflowing of rivers, charges of deliberate diversion of floodwater and breaches in embankments of barrages and canals during the recent floods - to complete the probe within six weeks and submit a report to the court's registrar. A two-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Ghulam Rabbani, was hearing a suo motu case against the breaches allegedly made in

KARACHI - Justice Sajjad Ali Shah was on Tuesday assigned to conduct an inquiry over the acquittal of suspects in a money laundering case and submit his detailed report before March 11. Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice Mushir Alam has initiated a probe on the directives of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who took suo motu notice of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General's allegations regarding the acquittal of the suspects in the Khanani and

THE HAGUE - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday announced a preliminary probe of possible crimes against humanity committed in Lib

LAHORE - The family of the late Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who was assassinated earlier this year, expressed shock and anger on Wednesday at comments in a news report claiming that it had not made sufficient effort to ensure that the investigation of the governor's assassination was carried out properly.
A source close to the family said that it was deeply upset by the comments, and said how it followed up on the investigation was entirely the family's business. The late

VIENNA - Syria has snubbed a request by UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano for prompt access to a suspect nuclear site and a number of other locations, diplomats said on Tuesday. After more than two years of deadlock on the issue, Syria could find itself under intensified scrutiny at a meeting of the 35-member board of governors of Viennna-based International Atomic Energy Agency next month.
A number of countries could start even pushing for a possible resolution against

LAHORE - District and Session Judge on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of a private complaint filed by Naveed Aslam Baig, seeking direction to conduct a preliminary inquiry of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's 'murder' case. Baig submitted that Ziaul Haq toppled Bhutto's elected government and hanged him for the murder of Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan, with the aid of Naseem Hassan Shah and Federal Security Forces DG Masood Mahmood.
The complainant prayed the court to summon Ijazul Haq and Dr

ISLAMABAD - The executive board meeting of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday approved complaint verification against PML-N MNA Anjum Aqeel for his alleged involvement in a fraud of Rs 6 billion in the non-transfer of land to National Police Foundation (NPF).
The meeting also approved filing of 11 references against corrupt officials while six complaints were also approved for verification. A source told Pakistan Today that there was enough material against the