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KARACHI - A local court sent an alleged drug peddler named Khan Muhammad alias Kano to judicial custody on Tuesday. The suspect was arrested by the Sindh Excise and Taxation Department (E&TD) police on April 11 from the Clifton police limits and produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate (South) Ishaq H Singhar on Tuesday. According to the prosecution, E&TD police team led by ETO Yaqoob Jakrani conducted a raid at a narcotics den located near the Gizri bus stop and arrested the

KARACHI - Five men allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar were sent on police remand till the 18th by an anti-terrorism court (ATC), but they will have to be produced before the court at the next hearing.
The accused, including Shahrukh alias Mani, Naveed alias Polka, Shakil Malik, Faisal Mehmood alias Nafsiyati and Syed Muhammad Ali Rizvi, were produced before an ATC on Friday, with the police seeking their physical remand for further interrogation. The

LAHORE - An Indian national, who was held by Pakistani intelligence agencies and charged with spying and sentenced to life imprisonment around 24 years ago, was released from Kot Lakhpat Jail on Thursday on special directives of President Asif Ali Zardari.
Gopal Das, one of Pakistan's longest-serving Indian prisoners, crossed the border for spying in 1984 but was arrested by intelligence agencies from Azad Kashmir. On March 27, President Zardari ordered Das' release late last

LAHORE - Judicial Magistrate Irfan Basra on Friday sent former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi's son Moonis Elahi on judicial remand until April 15. However instead of being shifted to the jail, Moonis was moved into a NADRA rest house "due to his security concerns and sensitivities of his political affiliation".
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) authorities produced the accused who is allegedly involved in the National Insurance Corporation scam in court after completion of

LAHORE - An accountability court on Wednesday handed over Javed Iqbal, partner of M/s Khalid Oil Mill, Vehari to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on physical remand until April 13.
The accused has been arrested on charges of bank loan fraud of Rs 4.691 million. Javed, along with Muhammad Shafi, took a loan worth Rs 5.5 million from MCB Bank, Vehari against pledged stock. Both of them misappropriated the pledged stock illegally without paying back the loan.

ISLAMABAD - A local court on Wednesday sent former minister for Religious Affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi, who was in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), to jail on a 14-day judicial remand for his alleged involvement in the Haj scam.
Kazmi was produced in the court of Senior Civil Judge Aslam Gondal who passed the orders on the request of the FIA prosecutor. The former minister, bought to the court under tight security, was earlier on a physical remand in the

LAHORE - Students of Intermediate from Forman Christian College University (FCCU) protested on Monday against the FCCU administration for withholding their admissions for the intermediate examination 2011.
The demonstration was organized near the Canal Road in which the students strongly protested against the decision and demanded that authorities concerned take notice of the matter. Students claimed that it was only students who bribed officials that shall be able to sit in the

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) police arrested two impostors and brought them before a judicial magistrate who sent them to jail until March 30.
Muhammad Ali alias Manan and his accomplice Ishtiaq had reportedly been selling illegal electricity connections in Orangi Town by pretending to be KESC employees. The KESC police arrested the impostors on Wednesday while they were tampering with the meter of a customer who was working in collaboration with KESC's

LAHORE - Judicial magistrate Ihtisham Sadiq on Friday handed over Member of the Punjab Assembly Moonis Elahi to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on physical remand until March 21. He is involved in the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam.
Earlier, FIA produced Moonis in the district courts to get his physical remand. He was brought there in an armoured personnel carrier (APC).

LAHORE - An accountability court on Friday handed over former Haj director Rao Shakeel Ahmad to NAB on physical remand until April 1. Rao is involved in piling up illegal assets and was arrested on March 17 in Lahore on charges of maintaining various bank accounts, through which he made heavy transactions. During the hearing, counsel for the accused Amjad Pervaiz argued that NAB initiated an inquiry against Rao in 2001 and at the end he had been declared innocent.
In spite of

LAHORE - The Ministry Of Defense on Thursday informed the Lahore High Court that the case of Jinnah Hospital's missing doctor, Ali Abdullah, has been referred to the Judicial Commission for Missing People (JCMP). Hussain Shahbaz, deputy director legal in the ministry, said this while appearing before the court of Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was hearing a habeas corpus petition for the recovery of Dr Ali Abdullah from alleged custody of ISI. The officer submitted a written

KARACHI - The inquiry report into the acquittal of eight suspects in Khanani and Kalia money laundering case was sent to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudry on Monday. Earlier, Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had presented the sealed report to Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice Musheer Alam. The SHC chief justice had initiated a probe on the directive of CJP, who took suo motu notice of the comments from Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General

KARACHI - Fans of betting, bet safely with the "I.I. Chundrigar bookie" - he is a man trusted by the big guns, has direct contacts in Mumbai and Dubai, and till now, has transferred more than nine billion rupees abroad. The I.I. Chundrigar bookie, as he is known among clients and supporters, gets his name from the location of his office - situated on the sixth floor of a complex near the Shaheen Complex end of the I.I. Chundrigar Road. His set-up was inaugurated as an office of a

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday referred five cases of lawmakers holding fake degrees to police for registration of criminal cases against the parliamentarians. An ECP official said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Hamid Ali Mirza referred the cases to the district police officers (DPOs) concerned. He said the CEC directed police to register criminal cases against the accused lawmakers for their involvement in corrupt practices.

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has sent a summary to Governor Latif Khosa for the ouster of ministers belongs to the Pakistan People's Party from the Punjab cabinet. However, sources in the Governor's House denied receiving any such summary.
As per details, Chief Minister Shahbaz on Saturday sent an advice to the governor for the ouster of six PPP ministers from the provincial cabinet. A private TV channel reported Governor Khosa as saying that he would act in

PESHAWAR - A US national, said to be a former security contractor, arrested under the Foreigners Act from Peshawar on Friday was sent to prison on a judicial remand by a local court on Saturday. Erin Mark De Heaven, was arrested under Section 14 of the Foreign Act by the security personnel from outside a fast food restaurant on University Road.
After hearing the prosecution, the judge sent De Heaven on a judicial remand to Central Jail Peshawar. Prison authorities claimed of

KARACHI - The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has reshuffled its entire management with the chairman and two directors being forced to resign on February 24. PTCL told its shareholders in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad stock exchanges on Friday that PTCL Chairman Najeebullah Malik and directors Salman Siddiqui and Khursheed Ahmed Junejo had resigned, adding that Walid Irshad would continue to serve as chief executive officer for the next term.
Saeed Ahmad Khan