{
  "id": 8935225,
  "title": "Mir Raza murder case: Judicial commission turns down MLO's request to record further statement",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/mir-raza-murder-case-judicial-commission-turns-down-mlos-request-to-8935225",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-21T13:53:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn",
    "slug": "dawn",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2031610/mir-raza-murder-case-judicial-commission-turns-down-mlos-request-to-record-further-statement"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Karachi: A judicial commission charged with examining potential negligence in the Mir Raza Ali murder case declined a request on Monday by Dr Osama Shaikh, the medico-legal officer who performed Ali’s initial autopsy, to record an additional statement. Justice Omar Sial, who leads the one-member commission, stated that Shaikh had appeared on social media and claimed he had more information to divulge. When asked if he believed Ali’s death was a suicide, Shaikh clarified that he did not, and instead wanted to justify his findings that the bullet entered Ali’s body from the front.",
  "summary": "KARACHI: A judicial commission formed to investigate the circumstances and possible negligence in the Mir Raza Ali murder case declined on Monday a request by Dr Osama Shaikh — the medico-legal officer who conducted the slain businessman’s first autopsy — to record a further statement. Sindh High Court’s Justice Omar Sial, who heads the one-member commission, observed that Sheikh had “appeared on…",
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        "outlet": "Dawn - Pakistan",
        "title": "Mir Raza murder case: Judicial commission turns down MLO's request to record further statement",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/mir-raza-murder-case-judicial-commission-turns-down-mlos-request-to",
        "published": "2026-09-21T13:53:34.000Z"
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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."
}