{
  "id": 3010135,
  "title": "Mir Raza murder case: Victim's family moves SHC against judicial commission formation, seeks JIT for probe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/mir-raza-murder-case-victims-family-moves-shc-against-judicial",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-24T11:54:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn",
    "slug": "dawn",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2024980/mir-raza-murder-case-victims-family-moves-shc-against-judicial-commission-formation-seeks-jit-for-probe"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The family of Mir Raza Ali, a 25-year-old businessman found dead with a gunshot wound in Karachi, has filed a petition in the Sindh High Court (SHC) challenging the formation of a judicial commission to review the probe into his murder case. The court appointed Justice Omar Sial to head the commission, despite objections from the Ali family and their lawyer, Jibran Nasir. The petition, filed through Nasir, requested the court to set aside the Sindh government's decision and instead form a joint investigation team (JIT) comprised of officers from various agencies, including the Sindh police, Rangers, Federal Investigation Agency, Intelligence Bureau, Inter-Services Intelligence, and military intelligence. The petition also asked for the appointment of a senior officer with no previous involvement in the case as the head of the JIT, tasked with conducting a \"fresh and comprehensive investigation\" into the abduction, torture, and murder of Ali. The petitioners claimed that the judicial commission lacked the authority to conduct a criminal investigation or submit a charge sheet, and that an ordinary investigative mechanism had failed to satisfactorily establish the fundamental circumstances surrounding Ali's death.",
  "summary": "KARACHI: The family of Mir Raza Ali — a 25-year-old Karachi-based businessman who was found dead with a gunshot wound last month — moved the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday against the provincial government’s decision to form a judicial commission for a review of the probe into his murder case. The development took place as the Sindh government implemented its decision announced on Sunday,…",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Times",
        "title": "Judicial commission formed to probe Mir Raza killing",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/judicial-commission-formed-to-probe-mir-raza-killing",
        "published": "2026-08-24T11:13:46.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Dawn - Pakistan",
        "title": "Mir Raza murder case: Victim's family moves SHC against judicial commission formation, seeks JIT for probe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/mir-raza-murder-case-victims-family-moves-shc-against-judicial-3013905",
        "published": "2026-08-24T12:20:11.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}