by Malik Asad in Dawn, October 1st, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday filed a challan (charge sheet) in the Special Court established under the Official Secrets Act, declaring former prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi principal accused in the cipher case. The other suspects in the case, including former principal secretary Azam Khan and former federal minister Asad Umar, have been placed in column 2 of the challan,…
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Report in Dhaka Tribune, Sept 15, 2023The government of Bangladesh has expressed its “utter disappointment” at the adoption of a resolution by the European Parliament on Thursday on the “Human rights situation in Bangladesh, notably the case of Odhikar.” “The timing and language of the joint motion, tabled by some political groups in the European Parliament, for making judgemental comments over sub-judice matters and a court verdict on two Odhikar officials delivered today in Dhaka…
by Tariq Saeed in Dawn, September 4th, 2023TOBA TEK SINGH: In the ongoing investigation of the Jaranwala Quran desecration case, one of the arrested suspects has told police that he hired a hitman, Allah Ditta Maseeh, and provided him with money and motorcycle to eliminate his opponent, the main suspect in the desecration incident. When Ditta’s attempt to assassinate the target failed, the suspect devised a plan involving the desecration of the Quran to frame…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, August 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: As a local magistrate on Sunday remanded PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the FIA custody for a day in the ongoing cipher case, former finance minister and erstwhile PTI leader Asad Umar went ‘missing’ from the federal capital. There were speculations that Mr Umar had also been taken into custody in connection with the same case, with media reports and party leaders insisting that he…
AFP report, June 27, 2023COLOMBO: Bankrupt Sri Lanka’s government on Monday said it was scrapping plans to export around 100,000 endangered monkeys to China following an outcry and a court case by animal lovers. The toque macaque is endemic to Sri Lanka and common on the island of 22 million people but is classed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list. Agriculture minister Mahinda Amaraweera said in June that…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, March 21, 2023The Office of the Attorney General has given a clean chit to Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) chief Rabi Lamichhane in the case of possession of dual passports. “As per the report submitted to the Nepal Police, the Office of the Attorney General has decided that there is no need to file a case against Lamichhane for holding dual passports of Nepal and the United States of America,” Joint…
Report in Dawn, March 8th, 2023LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday handed down death penalty on three counts to three more accused persons each for their role in a 2021 blast near the residence of Jamatud Dawa’s chief Hafiz Saeed in Johar Town. The convicts include Samiul Haq, Uzair Akbar and Naveed Akhtar. ATC-I Presiding Judge Abhur Gul Khan awarded the death sentence to the convicts on three counts each under section 302 of Pakistan…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, February 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) cleared former prime minister Imran Khan of terrorism charges on Monday, removing sections of the terror law from two first information reports (FIRs) against him and other leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) related to the 2014 sit-in. Judge Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan remanded the case to the sessions court. The Secretariat police station had registered FIRs over the violence during the sit-in.…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 22, 2022A court in Dhaka placed Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Md Shafiqur Rahman on a three-day fresh remand in a case lodged with capital’s Jatrabari Police Station for his alleged involvement in militancy, reports BSS. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Syed Mostafa Reza Nur on Thursday passed the order as police produced the Jamaat chief before the court after the end of his seven-day remand in the case and pleaded for placing him…