China has intensified its economic engagement with Pakistan by cultivating influential political elites. But the deeper story of Chinese inroads is the diversification of ties to local stakeholders, notably in the education, media, and energy sectors.
China has intensified its economic engagement with Pakistan by cultivating influential political elites. But the deeper story of Chinese inroads is the diversification of ties to local stakeholders, notably in the education, media, and energy sectors.
Court extends PTI lawmaker s bail in NAB inquiry
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KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court commuted on Tuesday the death sentence awarded to a murder convict into life imprisonment.
A two-member bench, comprising Justice KK Agha and Justice Abdul Mobeen Lakho, announced the verdict on convict Babar s plea seeking acquittal.
The bench remarked that the convict could not be acquitted in light of the evidence against him.
According to the police, Babar stabbed a security guard, Muhammad Ramzan, to death and injured two others in 2012.
Finding Babar guilty, a trial court had sentenced him to death in 2019.
Bail extended
Another two-member bench, comprising Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro and Justice Shamsuddin extended the interim bail of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPA Firdous Shamim Naqvi in the National Accountability Bureau investigation into the 30-year lease of Habib Group of Companies in 2006.
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