KARACHI – Pashtun nationalist politician and Member National Assembly Ali Wazir and 12 other persons were acquitted by Anti-Terrorism Court on Tuesday. Wazir’s counsel apprised the court that the PTM chief was detained from the country’s northwestern region and has since spent more than two ...

LAHORE – A court in Punjab’s capital city Wednesday acquitted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz in the Rs16 billion money laundering case. The Special Court, Central, announced the verdict after the Federal Investigation Agency prosecutor informed the judge that no money ...

KARACHI – A session court in Karachi on Tuesday acquitted Lyari gangster Uzair Baloch in a criminal case for want of evidence. Uzair Baloch, who was booked in kidnapping and murder case of a citizen, was brought to the court in tight security. During the hearing, defence lawyer argued that ...

ISLAMABAD: Former senator Faisal Raza Abidi has been acquitted in the contempt case against him. Anti-Electronics Crimes court Judge Tahir Khan announced the verdict reserved on Thursday. The court noted that the accusations against the former senator could not be proven. The case was filed against ...

ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted three life sentenced convicts after passing twelve years behind the bars in a murder case. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa heard the appeal of accused, namely, Muhammad Yaseen, Ghulam Mustafa and Muhammad Nadeem. All the ...

ISLAMABAD – Accountability Court Arshad Malik issued a *detailed verdict* of the Flagship reference on Monday. The court had acquitted *Nawaz Sharif*, giving him the benefit of doubt. The court ruled that Nawaz Sharif being the real owner of the companies cannot be ignored. “However, the ...

ISLAMABAD - Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had been acquitted by an accountability court in the Flagship Investment corruption case only on technical grounds. Speaking to the media in Islamabad hours after accountability court sentenced Sharif to seven years in prison in the Al-Azizia ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistanis have reacted badly to the acquittal of law student Shah Hussain convicted for stabbing his class fellow, Khadija Siddiqi. He was serving a five-year sentence when the news came from the Lahore High Court on Monday. Talking to SAMAA Digital, Khadija’s lawyer Hassaan Niazi ...

ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Buner today (Thursday) acquitted Member elect Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Baldev Kumar in the murder case of Advisor to the Chief Minister Sardar Suran Singh.  The court also acquitted six other accused in the case due to lack of evidences. They were ...

PESHAWAR – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Baldev Kumar and five co-accused have been acquitted by ATC Court of the murder charges of MPA Sardar Swarn Singh. Swarn Singh was assassinated at his native village in Buner on April 22, 2016. The police had then arrested six people, including Kumar ...