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PTI leader’s assassination: Police start probe into Zahra Hussain’s murder

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KARACHI: The police have registered an FIR of the assassination of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Zahra Shahid Hussain on the fourth day of her assassination after the family refused to do so. 

An FIR number 198/13 has been registered under the 302/34 section of the Pakistan Penal Code and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act against two unidentified men.

Hussain was shot dead outside her house in Phase-IV Defence Housing Authority on May 18. The family had initially asked the police for time to complete the burial rites of the deceased before lodging the FIR. Later, the family refused, however, a probe into the assassination after which the police have registered an FIR on behalf of Gizri police station SHO Sohail Ahmed.

Ahmed told The Express Tribune that ‘I have recorded my statement in the FIR that the PTI Sindh senior vice-president was shot dead by two unidentified men outside her residence on May 18.’ He added that, as the nature of the incident has yet to be ascertained, he had stated in the FIR that the deceased was killed for ‘unexplained’ reasons.

Gizri DSP Azam Baloch, who is also a member of the investigation team, told The Express Tribune that the police had been prompted to register the case on behalf of the state after the family refused. “Nobody from the family or even the party approached us to register the case. The family assured us that they would register an FIR after they would get some free time, but they recently retracted their earlier statements and said they do not want a probe into the incident.” He added that, now that an investigation had been initiated by the state, the family could be called in for questioning by the police investigators if required.

PTI decides not to take names

At a press conference on Wednesday, PTI leaders explained that the party decided not to take names in the FIR after consulting its legal team. “The names can be included anytime as the case proceeds, said PTI central leader Firdous Shamim Naqvi. He did wonder why the police failed to name the suspects in the FIR lodged by the state. “This reflects an apparent bias in the conduct of the police when they failed to consider the statement of the head of a party whose office-bearer became a victim of target killing.”

Naqvi insisted the police should record Imran Khan’s statement after he held the Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain responsible for the murder on television.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 23rd, 2013.


Bail rejected: Ex-minister arrested for allegedly assaulting police

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CHARSADDA: Former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) law minister Barrister Arshad Abdullah of the Awami National Party (ANP) was arrested on Wednesday along with 18 others from the premises of a court in Charsadda.

A case was filed against Abdullah and his accomplices on April 26 at Uthmanzai police station for allegedly assaulting police officials by pointing guns at them and preventing them from their duties by force. Consequently, police charged him under Sections 183, 189, 149, 145, 506 and 353 of the Pakistan Penal Code, following which the former minister managed to secure bail before arrest.

Abdullah had received bail from the court of Additional Sessions Judge Justice Shehnaz Hameed Khattak. On Wednesday, Abdullah along with 18 of his accomplices including five police officials serving his security guards appeared before the sessions judge, who rejected their bail.

The judge ordered the immediate arrest of all the culprits, after which Abdullah and his accomplices were jailed in city police station.

Following Abdullah’s arrest, ANP’s district general secretary Qasim Ali Khan Muhammadzai along with other local leaders held a press conference at the party’s district secretariat, alleging ANP leaders were being sidelined according to a ‘plan’. He said the elements involved would be dealt with strictly.

Muhammadzai claimed the district government had failed to provide security to ANP leaders and demanded Abdullah’s release.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 23rd, 2013.


Bail rejected: Ex-minister arrested for allegedly assaulting police

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CHARSADDA: Former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) law minister Barrister Arshad Abdullah of the Awami National Party (ANP) was arrested on Wednesday along with 18 others from the premises of a court in Charsadda.

A case was filed against Abdullah and his accomplices on April 26 at Uthmanzai police station for allegedly assaulting police officials by pointing guns at them and preventing them from their duties by force. Consequently, police charged him under Sections 183, 189, 149, 145, 506 and 353 of the Pakistan Penal Code, following which the former minister managed to secure bail before arrest.

Abdullah had received bail from the court of Additional Sessions Judge Justice Shehnaz Hameed Khattak. On Wednesday, Abdullah along with 18 of his accomplices including five police officials serving his security guards appeared before the sessions judge, who rejected their bail.

The judge ordered the immediate arrest of all the culprits, after which Abdullah and his accomplices were jailed in city police station.

Following Abdullah’s arrest, ANP’s district general secretary Qasim Ali Khan Muhammadzai along with other local leaders held a press conference at the party’s district secretariat, alleging ANP leaders were being sidelined according to a ‘plan’. He said the elements involved would be dealt with strictly.

Muhammadzai claimed the district government had failed to provide security to ANP leaders and demanded Abdullah’s release.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 23rd, 2013.


Labourer freed from police detention

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KARACHI: 

A bailiff raided Sohrab Goth police station on Tuesday and released a labourer, Muhammad Jameel, who was being held in wrongful confinement.

The police failed to produce any concrete evidence to justify his detention. The SHO and duty officer were directed to appear before the district and sessions court on May 22 (today).

The complainant, Muhammad Usman, filed an application against the law enforcers saying that his nephew was illegally arrested by the police last night and the officials were demanding a huge sum for his release.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2013.


Court orders police to lodge FIR against customs official

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KARACHI: 

A district and sessions court directed the Gadap police to register an FIR against a customs official, accused of threatening a driver and taking bribe.

The transporter, Ibrar Khan, went to court against the customs official, Ali Jan Jamali, and accused him and some other men of stopping his oil tanker near Kathore Morr on Super Highway on April 29 this year when his driver was coming back from Kanar oil field.

The petitioner said that Jamali roughed up the driver and accused him of carrying stolen oil.

The driver showed the necessary official documents but Jamali refused to listen to him, he said, adding that he took the driver and the truck to an abandoned place and forced him to call the owner to rescue him for money.

“Jamali demanded Rs3 million for the release of the truck and the driver,” claimed Khan. “The matter was, however, settled at Rs205,000.”

Khan added that Jamali and the other officials threatened them against taking any legal action.

In his petition, he urged the court to direct the police to lodge a case against the men since the police were not complying.

On the other hand, Gadap police SHO insisted that he received the petitioner’s application through his officers and appointed a sub-inspector, Noor Ahmed, to take further legal action as per law.

He said that both the parties were called at the police station where Khan accused Jamali, a constable in the customs department at Port Qasim, of taking bribe while the latter denied the charges saying that he was on medical leave and all
allegations against him were false. Jamali also produced a medical certificate in his defence, the SHO added.

The officer told the court that the matter pertained to the Anti-Corruption Department, however, if any order was going to be passed it should be complied with, in letter and spirit.

On Tuesday, the application under Section 22-A of the criminal procedure code was heard by the district and sessions judge, Malir, Muhammad Yamin, who told the SHO to register the FIR against Jamali according to the relevant law.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2013.