Yousaf Katpar

KARACHI: An accountability court adjourned on Saturday the hearing of two corruption references against Dr Asim Hussain and others. Dr Asim, former petroleum minister and close aide of former president Aisf Zardar, and other his accomplices have been booked on charges of fraudulently awarding gas contracts, misusing his authority to get land allotted illegally, encroaching […]

  KARACHI: The city’s traffic police has been directed by the Sindh High Court to ensure that no illegal parking is being done on the roads of Saddar. A two-judge bench headed by Justice Irfan Saddat Khan warned the DIG traffic, “Adverse inference can be drawn against him if appropriate action is not taken.” The […]

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has directed the provincial police chief to trace out a missing college student or show up with an explanation. “Muhammad Faisal, a student of Shipowners College, had been missing since last four years but the police has failed to find his whereabouts and Joint Investigation Team’s sessions were also concluded […]

  KARACHI: The administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts has sent Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)’s London leaders Professor Hassan Zafar Arif and Amjadullah Khan to prison on judicial remand till Jan 3. Dr Hassan and Amjadullah were arrested shortly after their release from Karachi Central Prison on Tuesday and booked in a criminal case for allegedly […]

KARACHI: While observing that it is the responsibility of the state to trace out missing persons, the Sindh High Court directed the law enforcement agencies to make all-out efforts to find their whereabouts. Federal B Industrial Area’s SDPO told a two-judge bench that Hafiz Ehsanullah, a resident of North Karachi, has gone missing on his […]

KARACHI: Police on Monday told an anti-terrorism court (ATC) that Abdul Rehman alias Bhola – the main accused in the Baldia factory fire case – had confessed to setting ablaze the garment factory on the orders of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Karachi Tanzeemi Committee in-charge. Superintendent of Police (SP) Farooq Akhtar produced former Baldia […]

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court granted bail to the imprisoned Pasban-e-Pakistan general secretary, Usman Moazzam in a case related to facilitating terrorism and providing shelter to outlaws. Usman was placed under preventive detention for 90 days by the paramilitary troops for interrogation in August last year, and was handed over to the police after the completion […]

KARACHI: Expressing extreme displeasure over the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for dragging its feet to conclude the investigation into alleged forging and tempering of the results in Sindh Public Service Commission exam for the year 2003-04, the Sindh High Court observed that it appears as the investigator has not made appropriate efforts to complete the […]

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court granted bail to Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s leader Kunwar Naveed Jameel in two cases pertaining to anti-state speech, riots and attack on a media house. Jameel along with other MQM leaders and workers had been booked on the charges of listening to hate speech, anti-state offences and attack on media houses on […]

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s former Baldia Town sector in-charge Abdul Rehman alias Bhola, the prime suspect in Baldia factory inferno case, was handed over to the police on physical remand for questioning on Wednesday. The anti-terrorism court-II granted the physical remand of the suspect till Dec 19 at the request of the investigation officer of […]