ASI Wassan’s ‘murderers’ sent on judicial remand
National
December 23, 2020
SUKKUR: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Tuesday sent the alleged murderers of ASI Bilal Wassan on judicial remand after the 14-day extended physical remand in Khairpur.
The police had requested the judge to provide 14 more days physical remand of the accused Sarfaraz Rajput, his father Zahid Hussain Rajput and Syed Saqlain Shah to investigate the whereabouts of three unidentified co-accused nominated in the FIR. The defence counsels argued that the police had been torturing their clients to implicate three specific persons, whose names were given by the police. They also requested the judge to send the alleged murderers to jail because they apprehended their murder. The ATC had sent the accused to Central Jail, Khairpur, on judicial remand.
ISLAMABAD: A senior counsel representing the parents of slain
Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl on Tuesday submitted a DNA report in the Supreme Court to establish the fact that a body found in Karachi after the journalist’s murder in 2002 was that of the son of Judea and Ruth Pearl.
The DNA report conducted by the Armed Institute of Pathology, Washington DC in Nov 27, 2002 was furnished before the apex court by Advocate Faisal Siddiqui, who is representing Daniel Pearl’s parents, to lay to rest the impression that the body recovered after the murder was of someone else.
ISLAMABAD: A senior counsel representing the parents of slain Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief Daniel Pearl on Tuesday submitted a DNA report in the Supreme Court to establish the fact that a body found in Karachi after the journalist’s murder in 2002 was that of the son of Judea and Ruth Pearl.
The DNA report conducted by the Armed Institute of Pathology, Washington DC in Nov 27, 2002 was furnished before the apex court by Advocate Faisal Siddiqui, who is representing Daniel Pearl’s parents, to lay to rest the impression that the body recovered after the murder was of someone else.
Mastermind behind Pearl s murder is an international terrorist: SC informed
Pearl s parents have approached the Supreme Court against the acquittal and release of the four accused
The counsel for slain American journalist Daniel Pearl s parents informed the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday that the mastermind behind the murder is an international terrorist.
Pearl, the then South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal was abducted in Karachi in January 2002 while researching for links between militants in Pakistan and Richard C Reid. A graphic video showing Pearl’s decapitation was delivered to the US consulate in Karachi nearly a month after he was kidnapped.
K-P lawmaker gets bail in murder case
ATC in Abbottabad granted pre-arrest bail to the K-P Provincial Assembly Member Faisal Zaman
PESHAWAR:
A provincial assembly lawmaker was on Monday granted pre-arrest bail in a murder case.
A special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Abbottabad on Monday granted pre-arrest bail to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Provincial Assembly Member Faisal Zaman for his alleged involvement in the murder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Malik Tahir Iqbal.
Zaman, who is also the chairman of the provincial assembly’s Standing Committee on Law and Human Rights, appeared before the special ATC on Monday.
Court approved his bail but directed him to appear before it again on Monday, December 21.