{
  "id": 3013905,
  "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",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-24T12:20:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn - Pakistan",
    "slug": "dawn-pakistan",
    "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 murdered in Karachi, has moved the Sindh High Court (SHC) against the provincial government's decision to form a judicial commission to review the investigation into his death. Ali's family argues that a judicial commission should not replace an independent, impartial multi-agency Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the case. They have requested the court to set aside the Sindh government's decision and establish a JIT comprising members from the Sindh police, Rangers, FIA, IB, ISI, and other intelligence agencies, with a senior officer of unimpeachable integrity as its head. The petitioners have also sought the court's directives for the JIT to investigate potential motives such as extortion, ransom, organised criminal activity, or business disputes, and to determine if the facts attract any provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.",
  "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",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-08-24T11:54:16.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}