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The Supreme Court has formed a joint investigation team to probe the money laundering case involving Rs35 billion funneled through fake bank accounts at three local banks. Additional Director General of the FIA Ehsan Sadiq will head the team. The other five members are Tax Commissioner Imran Lateef, State Bank’s Majid Hussain, ISI’s Brigadier Shahid…

The Sindh High Court heard on Thursday a set of petitions pertaining to recovery of more than 70 missing persons. The court expressed its anger over performance of both police and JIT for making no progress in tracing the whereabouts of missing persons. Police investigation officer, DSP Korangi and other officials turned up as a…

Maryam Nawaz Sharif, daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, finished recording her statements in the Avenfield reference case on Monday. Criticizing the National Accountability Bureau’s joint investigation team, she said she knew why she was dragged in the case. “I know why I had to appear in the hearings for more than 70 times,”…

LAHORE: A joint investigation team has been formed to investigate firing on the residence Supreme Court judge Justice Ijazul Ahsan. The JIT will be headed by DIG Investigation Sultan Chaudhry. On Sunday, unknown gunman shot at house of Justice Ijazul Ahsan. He was part of a five member bench that last July disqualified Prime Minister…

Aftab Pathan, the head of the JIT probing the Naqeebullah murder case, said that investigations against Rao Anwar will begin right away. “Investigations will be carried out based on the FIR,” he said while talking to Samaa after the Supreme Court ordered to arrest Rao Anwar from the courtroom. “There are four people named in…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed TV journalist Dr Shahid Masood to submit his response on a joint investigation (JIT) report formed to probe his allegations in Zainab murder case. A three-member bench of the court headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar and comprising Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Ijazul Ahsan heard…

ISLAMABAD: FIA authorities claimed on Wednesday that Dr Shahid Masood had failed to give satisfactory answers to queries posed by the agency and had also not disclosed details pertaining to the bank accounts of suspect Imran Ali.  According to details, the Joint Investigation Team constituted by Punjab government on the orders of the Supreme Court…

ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a supplementary reference with new witnesses against former finance minister Ishaq Dar on Monday in the corruption reference. The supplementary reference was filed at the Registrar’s Office by NAB’s Special Prosecutor Imran Shafeeq and NAB’s Investigation Officer (IO).  Additional witnesses and three new accused persons have been part of the…

ISLAMABAD: NAB has decided to file another supplementary reference against former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday as the accountability court rejected his petition.  Proceedings in the Ishaq Dar assets and sources of income reference resumed after they were postponed till 11 30 am. The court rejected Ishaq Dar’s request to not freeze his assets…

ISLAMABAD: Wajid Zia, the former chief of the Panama case Joint Investigation Team (JIT), submitted volume one and nine of the JIT report and got his statement recorded before the accountability court hearing corruption reference against former finance minister Ishaq Dar on Monday.  Federal Investigation Agency Additional Director Wajid Zia, appeared today before the National…

ISLAMABAD: Wajid Zia, the former head of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe corruption allegations anchored in Panama Papers, will appear before the Accountability Court on February 12 as a main witness of the prosecution. The most important witness of the prosecution, who is Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Additional Director, Thursday appeared before the NB…

ISLAMABAD: A three-member committee was set up to investigate TV anchor Dr Shahid Masood’s claims that Imran Ali, the prime suspect of Zainab murder case, was a member an international child pornography ring. Masood also alleged that Imran Ali had 37 local and foreign bank accounts, a claim which was dismissed by the State Bank…

KARACHI: A joint investigation team (JIT) comprising police and intelligence officials has been formed to look into the murder case of 19-year-old Intizar, who was killed by ACLC officials in the DHA neighborhood of Karachi. The JIT is expected to meet today at 11am. On January 13, Intizar was killed when ACLC officials opened fire…

ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government has set up a joint investigation committee to launch an inquiry into alleged foreign accounts of Imran Ali accused of raping and killing seven-year-old Zainab Ansari and seven other young girls in Kasur. The move came shortly after TV anchor Dr Shahid Masood told the Supreme Court that the suspect had…

LAHORE: Punjab authorities say that a single serial rapist was behind all the recent cases of child abuse and murder in Kasur. A post-mortem examination conducted on eight-year-old Zainab Ansari confirmed that the young girl was subjected to sexual assault before being strangled to death. The autopsy revealed that Zainab’s hymen was ruptured. There were…

LAHORE: Inspector General Police (IGP) Punjab Capt. (R) Arif Nawaz Khan has said the JIT, constituted to investigate the murder of Zainab, is committed to investigate the case considering all evidences. He said this while visiting the house of deceased Zainab who was murdered after rape, at Kasur on Friday. He said that many persons…

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan claimed that Ishaq Dar is Nawaz Sharif’s front man who has 52 luxurious villas in Dubai.  Speaking in a press conference on Friday, Khan said that Ishaq Dar considers the nation as fool while Shehbaz Sharif continues the gimmicks. He claimed that he will soon disclose how Dar became a…

ATTOCK: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that only honest people will join his party’s leadership, Samaa reported. Addressing a public meeting in Attock, Khan said that a man is loved if he serves the people. He added that there is no place for a self-centered person in PTI. He called former prime…

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said that sacked premier Nawaz Sharif presented himself and his family members for accountability before a controversial joint investigation team (JIT) in Panama Papers Case.

ISLAMABAD: The Accountability Court issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Nawaz Sharif’s children and son-in-law on Monday for not appearing in today’s hearing. According to Samaa, Judge Muhammed Bashir of Islamabad’s Accountability Court today heard three references of London flats, Al-Azizia Steel Mills and Offshore Companies. The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared before…