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Noor Mukadam murder: Zahir Jaffer moves Supreme court against IHC verdict

Zahir Jaffar, the main convict sentenced in the Noor Mukadam murder case, Sunday approached the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) verdict which upheld the trial court’s decision awarding him with a death penalty for the crime. The convict filed a plea against the IHC asking the country’s top court to declare the death sentence […]

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Noor Mukadam murder: IHC upholds Zahir Jaffer’s death penalty

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday upheld the death sentence awarded to Zahir Jaffer in the Noor Mukadam murder case by the trial court and turned his life imprisonment into capital punishment. A two-member bench of the divisional bench, comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan, issued the verdict which was reserved December 21 […]

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JIT probing Arshad Sharif murder denied access to evidence by Kenya, SC told

A special joint investigation team (JIT) probing the murder of senior journalist Arshad Sharif was not given access to evidence by the Kenyan authorities, the Supreme Court was informed on Monday. A five-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, resumed the hearing of the suo motu notice of Sharif’s murder […]