QUETTA: At least 18 militants were killed in the restive Balochistan province on Wednesday after a car bomb they were assembling exploded prematurely, triggering a second blast and a manhunt in which security forces shot dead ten more terrorists as they tried to flee.
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New forensic tests add evidence but little clarity on gunshot wounds in Mir Raza Ali murder case
KARACHI: Investigators examining the murder of the young Karachi entrepreneur Mir Raza Ali have received a chemical examiner’s report and the results of a DNA test, but say the findings are not yet conclusive enough to point the investigation in a clear direction, sources close to the case said.
Man shot dead by security forces after opening fire on Rawalpindi patrol; govt, PTI clash over affiliation claims
ISLAMABAD: A man was shot dead by security forces in Rawalpindi on Tuesday after he allegedly opened fire on a police patrol on the city’s Mall Road, wounding one officer, in an incident that has reignited a bitter row between the government and Pakistan’s largest opposition party.
President Zardari signs off on new high court judges after weeks of constitutional wrangling
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has approved the appointment of additional judges to five of the country’s high courts, ending a weeks-long standoff with the government that had left senior judicial posts vacant and prompted a legal challenge in the Islamabad High Court.
Karachi police reopen Mir Raza Ali murder case after second autopsy contradicts suicide finding
KARACHI: A newly formed police investigation team has begun formal inquiries into the murder of young businessman Mir Raza Ali, days after a second post-mortem examination overturned earlier suggestions that he had taken his own life.
Militant commander among five killed in Balochistan security raid
QUETTA: Security forces killed five militants, including a commander of a group links to India, during an intelligence-led raid in Balochistan’s Panjgur district on Monday, as the province continues to bear the brunt of a sustained militant campaign that has claimed hundreds of lives this year.
Security forces kill 15 in Balochistan operations amid record surge in violence
ISLAMABAD: Security forces in Balochistan province killed 15 militants over the weekend in a series of raids across eight districts, the interior ministry and state media said, as the country’s largest province by area continues to record its bloodiest period of violence in more than a decade.
Judicial commission to probe Mir Raza Ali’s murder after second postmortem rules out suicide
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government has decided to seek a judicial commission to investigate the killing of 25-year-old businessman Mir Raza Ali, the province’s home minister said on Sunday, as authorities moved to overhaul the inquiry into a death that has gripped Karachi for more than a week.
Makkah defence pact ‘open to any country’ willing to honour its principles, says Dar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s deputy prime minister has said the newly signed defence pact between Islamabad, Riyadh and Ankara is open to any country in the region prepared to uphold its founding principles, as he moved to clarify the scope of an agreement struck at a moment of acute regional tension.
“This was murder”: second autopsy finds gunshot wound to back, broken bones on Mir Raza Ali
KARACHI: A second post-mortem examination carried out on the exhumed body of a young Karachi businessman has found that he was shot from behind and suffered extensive injuries consistent with a violent assault before his death, according to a preliminary medical report described by the family’s lawyer and cited by local broadcasters on Saturday.