KARACHI: After a day of confusion, accusation and last-minute reversals, the Sindh government on Friday evening backed down and reinstated the original eight-member medical board assigned to exhume the body of Mir Raza Ali, the young businessman whose death last month has become one of Karachi’s most closely watched cases. The exhumation, abandoned on Friday morning amid furious objections from Ali’s family, is now due to go ahead this morning.
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Family blocks exhumation of Karachi businessman Mir Raza Ali over medical board dispute
KARACHI: The exhumation of a 25-year-old Karachi businessman whose body was found dumped in bushes last month was called off on Friday, after his family refused to allow a hastily reassembled medical board to carry out the procedure.
Court orders exhumation of Mir Raza’s body for second autopsy
KARACHI: At 9am on Friday, workers will open the grave of Mir Raza Ali, a 25-year-old business graduate whose death has split Karachi’s police force against itself.
Pakistan gives state farewell to Broad Peak victims as repatriation begins
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Pakistan says India has ‘no standing’ to question Kashmir elections
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dismissed India’s criticism of ongoing elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir as “baseless and politically motivated,” with a Foreign
Press freedom groups condemn Pakistan’s new travel curbs on foreign media
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Bodies of Nirmal Purja and three teammates brought down from Broad Peak; three still missing
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PTI launches nationwide protests on third anniversary of Imran Khan’s imprisonment
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Flash floods and glacial melt cut off Karakoram Highway as hundreds stranded in Gilgit-Baltistan
GILGIT: Hundreds of tourists and residents were left stranded across Gilgit-Baltistan on Tuesday after cloudbursts and rapid glacial melting triggered flash floods that tore through homes, roads, bridges and farmland in the mountainous northern region of Pakistan.