Tag: Witness

‘False testimony’ by police witness in Mubarak trial

A police chief in court as a witness in former president Hosni Mubarak’s trial was charged with giving “false testimony” on Wednesday, following charges...

Citizens witness a rainless monsoon Sunday

Citizens witnessed a hot and humid Sunday with mercury touching 35 degrees Celsius in Lahore. The Met Office said fairly widespread thunderstorms and heavy...

Prices of vegetable witness upward trend at Sunday bazaars

The prices of most of vegetables increased sharply at the city Sunday bazaars. Even prices of tomato witnessed an increase of Rs 60 which...

Urea prices witness phenomenal increase

Prices may further increase by Rs464 Fertiliser prices in the country have witnessed a steep increase of Rs750 to Rs800 per bag during the last...

Another witness identifies ‘killer’ Rangers, contractor

A nother witness in the Sarfaraz Shah murder case identified the Pakistan Rangers personnel and a civilian involved in the extrajudicial killing of the...

Another witness backtracks in NICL scam

Banking Offence (Central) Special Judge Malik Abdul Rasheed on Wednesday recorded the statements of two prosecution witnesses during the hearing of NICL scam case...

Lahoris witness light rain

LAHORE - Lahoris witnessed light rain on Saturday but according to the Met Office, weather remained dry in most parts of the country. Rain and thunderstorm were witnessed at isolated places of North Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sargodha and Multan.
According to the Met Office, widespread rain with dust and thunderstorms are expected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa today (Sunday) while scattered rain with dust and thunderstorms are expected in Quetta, Zhob, Kalat, Sukkur, Larkana,

Law Ministry seeks statement of key ZAB case witness

ISLAMABAD - Senior consultant to the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry, Arif Chaudhry on Friday wrote a letter to the District Magistrate Islamabad seeking certified copy of the statement of Masood Mahmood, an 'approver' in the case of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB).
In a one-page letter to the District Magistrate Islamabad, Arif Chaudhry stated that FIR No. 402 was registered against then prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on November 11, 1974

Fake witness included in FIR of Bhatti’s killing?

ISLAMABAD - Conflicting accounts of two witnesses have raised doubts about the facts narrated in the first information report (FIR) lodged against the murder federal minister Shahbaz Bhatti, as one of the witness included in the report told Pakistan Today that he was not present in Islamabad at the time of the incident. It has been recorded in the FIR that the minister's brother Sikandar Bhatti and his nephew Rehan Bhatti were following Shahbaz Bhatti in another car when he was

SHERSHAH CARNAGE CASE – Witness files petition against suspects he had...

KARACHI - In a dramatic development in the Shershah carnage case on Monday, a witness filed a constitutional petition for arresting and prosecuting nine men who were released a month ago after he had failed to identify them before the court.
Anti-Terrorism Court Administrator Judge Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had acquitted the nine suspects - Ejaz, Iqbal, Muhammad Akbar, Asghar Ali, Muhammad Tufail, Abdul Rasheed, Tehseen, Jauhar and Abid - on January 26 because the complainant had

Sindh home minister’s witness protection bill gets the nod

KARACHI - Members of the Sindh cabinet approved a bill on Saturday drafted by Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza for providing protection to witnesses in cases filed by the prosecution at the courts.
Briefing media persons about the cabinet members' decisions, Chief Minister's Adviser on Information Sharmila Farooqui said that the bill would be presented at the Sindh Assembly for necessary legislation. "Despite the police arresting suspects in several criminal cases, especially