Sindh

Controversial move: Public prosecutor in Dr Asim case replaced

PPP supporter Nisar Ahmed Durrani to plead case on Monday

Zubair Ashraf December 20, 2015

PHOTO: ONLINE

KARACHI: The Sindh government has changed the special public prosecutor pursuing charges of harbouring and treating terrorists against former petroleum minister and Asif Ali Zardari’s confidante Dr Asim Hussain. This came a day after the paramilitary Rangers petitioned the Sindh High Court seeking a restraining order against the possible move.

Nisar Ahmed Durrani, a Hyderabad-based member of the Sindh Bar Council and supporter of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party, replaced Mushtaq Jehangiri, a lawyer who was part of the paramilitary force’s legal team.

Rangers move court against likely prosecutor change in Dr Asim's case

“I have received a letter [from the government] regarding my appointment as the special public prosecutor in the [Dr Asim] case,” Durrani confirmed to The Express Tribune. He said the notification was forwarded to him by the law department. According to the rules, however, the notification must be channelled through the home department. He added that he has already received the case history and related documents and that he was preparing for Monday’s (today’s) hearing.

Anticipated

A day earlier, a deputy superintendent of the Rangers, Inayatullah Durrani, approached the SHC against the possible change of the prosecutor in Dr Asim’s case. The Sindh government was pressuring the home department to replace Jehangiri because he had refused to approve a report for Dr Asim’s release.

SHC rejects Rangers’ plea against Dr Asim’s release

On Friday, Jehangiri had also moved the court, filing a similar petition in which he accused the newly-appointed investigating officer, DSP Altaf Hussain, of conducting an unfair and partial investigation to favour the accused.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 21^st, 2015.

COMMENTS (5)

Jibran | 8 years ago | Reply Jahangir was a party being a member of the rangers legal team.

Ahmed | 8 years ago | Reply Now that is the real beauty of democracy...

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Saf Rana | 8 years ago | Reply Again,what other moves will Dr Asim's legal team try?how blatant can one be to avoid justice? it's time to place GOVERNOR rule!or the army to take matters into their own hands as this has become a farce,Ayan Ali,Dr Asim and lets not forget Mr Uzair Baloch to come in the next episode of PPP Politics!corruption,corruption and more corruption,so much for their slogan of, FOOD,CLOTHING AND HOUSING,yeah right!is it just me or is this SHARMEELA FAROOQI,you know,the one seen in the video attending a dinner held by Uzair Baloch and attended by many of the PPP party members annoying or what?

ishrat salim | 8 years ago | Reply Good good keep on voting for the corrupt lot. Unless the literate class & urban population exercise their right to vote, these blokes will keep on coming in through Rural vote. WE have to increase the percentage of voting from present dismal to more than 70-80%. Only then we can really call for change, otherwise, until then we the literate lot do not have the right to even criticize these politicians & their governance issue. When we do not go for vote on the day, do we have the right to criticize ?

Parvez | 8 years ago | Reply Justice Pakistani style, what our leaders shamelessly call the ' rule of law ' .....if its not going your way, change the prosecutor and burn the evidence ....if it's still going against you, change the judge...... but by then the government would have changed and you'd be home free.

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