Sumair Abdullah

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ATC refuses police remand of 115 inmates recaptured after Malir jailbreak

3 weeks ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

• Judge says police assigned no specific role to any suspect• Inmates tell court they temporarily left jail premises due to chaos caused by earthquake, returned once situation normalisedKARACHI: As many as 115 prisoners escaped from District Jail Malir have been rearrested and booked in a terrorism case along with remaining fugitives, a police officer informed an anti-terrorism court on Thursday.
Karachi victim in DHA assault case ‘forgives’ suspect but court rejects bail application

3 weeks ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

A Karachi resident who was assaulted in the Defence Housing Authority earlier this week says he has forgiven the suspect and does not want to take the case to court, even as a judge rejected the suspect’s bail in a separate hearing. On Monday, Karachi police arrested a main suspect along with two of his employees over charges of beating a citizen named Dheeraj. The suspect, identified as Salman Farooqi, was arrested from DHA and his vehicle was impounded.
‘Karachi produces 394 kilotons of hazardous emissions every year’

3 weeks ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

• PAQI report analyses data from 13 newly installed air quality monitors• Experts stress need for more scientific efforts to monitor pollution and its effectsKARACHI: The city of Karachi produces over 394 kilotons of emissions in the atmosphere, with industry contributing 49 per cent and transport 33pc of the particulate matter (PM2.5), a report says.
Motorbike snatcher in Karachi jailed for 14 years

1 month ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

DAWN.COM E-Paper | May 28, 2025 Subscribe to notifications Get the latest news and updates from Dawn Not Now Allow Notifications KARACHI: A sessions court has sentenced a street criminal to 14 years in prison for snatching a motorbike from a citizen at gunpoint near Aladdin Park on Rashid Minhas Road and for possessing an illegal weapon.
Bail plea of model Nadia’s husband rejected

1 month ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

KARACHI: A sessions court on Friday rejected the bail plea of the husband of model Nadia Hussain in multi-million-rupee embezzlement case. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had booked Atif Muhammad Khan, the model’s husband and former CEO of Bank Alfalah Securities, along with others on the complaint of the private trading company.
Man sentenced to death, accomplice jailed for life in two clerics killing case

1 month ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday handed down death sentence to a man and life imprisonment to his accomplice for killing two clerics associated with a banned outfit in a targeted attack at a seminary in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal area. In 2016, Iqra Darul Atfal seminary administrator Mufti Ghulam Akbar and his guest Mufti Kamran Hussain were shot by two unidentified men, along with their accomplices, at the seminary in Gulshan Block 6.
10 years on, Safoora bus carnage perpetrators remain unpunished

1 month ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

• CTD official Khattab says failure to deliver justice may embolden other militant groups • Defence counsel claims there’s no concrete evidence against his clients; alleges they faced maltreatment during interrogation KARACHI: A decade after the Safoora Goth bus attack that killed 47 members of the Shia Ismaili community, the counterterrorism official who arrested the terrorist gang expresses concern over the inordinate delay in executing their sentence, warning that failure to deliver...
Sindh lawyers urge govt to move ICJ against India

1 month ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

KARACHI: The legal fraternity in Sindh on Wednesday condemned the unprovoked Indian attacks on Pakistani soil and urged the federal government to initiate legal action against India at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under the provisions of the United Nations Charter.
13 CTD men acquitted for lack of evidence in kidnap case

1 month ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday acquitted 13 officials of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) for lack of evidence in a kidnapping for ransom case. The accused persons filed applications for their acquittal through their counsel, Naimatullah Shah, Haider Farooq Jatoi, and others, before the ATC-I in Clifton.
Armaghan sent to jail in money laundering case

2 months ago | dawn.com | Sumair Abdullah

DAWN.COM E-Paper | April 25, 2025 Subscribe to notifications Get the latest news and updates from Dawn Not Now Allow Notifications KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday remanded Armaghan in judicial custody in a money laundering case.