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Express Tribune
24-02-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Freedom eludes anti-PPP alliance leader
As freedom from incarceration eludes Grand Democratic Alliance's leader Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi, three bails from as many courts on Monday in addition to an earlier order of Sindh High Court failed to secure his release from the jail custody. The former federal minister after his discharge from Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad, on Monday was sent back to Nara Jail as a civil judge and judicial magistrate of Sukkur district granted his 14-day judicial remand in a hitherto unknown case. Confusion prevailed while his discharge card was being prepared at the hospital with some sources insinuating about continuity of his imprisonment on judicial remand and others suggesting that he might be set free. He was admitted to the LUH on February 22 with complaints of chest pain. Earlier, Larkana's Additional District and Session Judge Rashid Ali Dayo granted bails to Jatoi in two separate FIRs registered at Badeh and Dokri police stations. Ahsan Hyder Shah Syed, Additional District and Session Judge in Khairpur, also approved his bail in an FIR lodged at Hingroja police station. These FIRs contain sections like 324, 353, 148, 149, 216A, 109, 506/2, 353, 224 and 402 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and 24 of Sindh Arms Act (SAA). The charges include attempt to murder, obstructing government officials from performing duty and robbery, among others. Interestingly, his remand has been given even though Sindh High Court Larkana Circuit on February 20 had barred the Sindh police from arresting Jatoi in any new case except those three cases in which he has already been taken into custody. These included the two FIRs in Larkana and one of a murder case registered at Moro police station in Noushehro Feroze district. The Anti Terrorism Court of Noushehro Feroze on February 20 had also granted bail to Jatoi in the murder case. The GDA leader's wife, Naveen Jatoi, has time and again blamed Pakistan Peoples Party's Sindh government for framing her husband in fabricated cases in order to pressurize their family. She alleged that political opposition to the PPP's leadership and agricultural lands are the obvious causes behind his arrest. "It appears that the accused isn't nominated in the FIR with specific allegation or role," reads the judicial remand order given by a civil judge and judicial magistrate of Sukkur on Monday. "However, it appears that the accused is implicated through further statements of the complainant under section 162 of CrPC." His jail custody has been approved till March 9. "It is an admitted fact that the name of the accused [Jatoi] isn't mentioned in the FIR or even in the challan," observed senior lawyer Sajjad Ahmed Chandio while talking to The Express Tribune. "And when the case is under trial then it's the prerogative of the concerned trial court to add or exempt/acquit any person as accused." He was referring to the civil judge's remand order.
Express Tribune
21-02-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Nationalists, intellectuals reject six water canals
The court has observed that people living downstream on both sides of Indus River are dying because of toxic effluent and waste in Manchar Lake. PHOTO: APP The six water canals being constructed on the Indus River will not only destroy Sindh's agriculture but will also parch urban areas, including Karachi. In the Sindh Unity Conference organized by Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM) at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday, the speakers demanded the government to allow Sindh's rightful share of the water. "It is not only for our agriculture but we won't have water to drink," JSM's Riaz Chandio said. "People in urban areas believe that construction of six canals on the river is a purely issue related to the rural areas," he explained. But, he added, people living Sindh's urban areas especially in Hyderabad and Karachi will face the consequences more than those who live in far flung areas. He appealed Karachiites to take collective action against the project. Rejection the six canals he strongly demanded the government that Sindh must receive its due share of water as per the 1991 Water Accord. The participants urged the United Nations to recognize the Indus River as a living entity, similar to the Magpie River in Canada and other protected rivers worldwide. In the resolution passed by the conference' participants, they condemned the retaliatory actions of the PPP-led government and demanded the immediate release of Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi. The conference was attended by Dr Safdar Abbasi, Sardar Abdul Rahim, Husnain Mirza, Noor-ul-Huda Shah, Dr Kaiser Bengali, Syed Khuda Dino Shah, Manzoor Mirani, Shahab Osto, Dr Ali Hassan Bhutto, Aamir Fayaz Warraich, Naeem Qureshi Advocate and others. The conference also held responsible the provincial and federal governments for rising road accidents. They also condemned the recent accidents in the city, demanding a crackdown on the dumper mafia. The participants also discussed the prevailing law and order situation in Sukkur and Larkana divisions, affecting hundreds of people.
Express Tribune
17-02-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
GDA leader Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi arrested
KARACHI: Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) leader Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi was arrested in Noushehro Feroze district on Monday, which the GDA and nationalist parties term political victimization. Jatoi was rounded up when he was returning from the court, where he managed to secure bail in an FIR of police encounter. Hundreds of policemen intercepted him outside the court and told him that he was being arrested in another FIR lodged in Moro taluka of Nourshehro Feroze. He was, however, later shifted to B-Section police station in Shaheed Benazirabad district instead of being taken to the police station in Moro where he was booked. The police claimed that the Anti Terrorism Court had issued non-bailable warrants for Jatoi on February 12 in an FIR of attacking the polling station Ali Baksh Jatoi in Moro on the day of the general elections last year. A man was killed and three were injured in that alleged assault. Nawan Jatoi town in Noushehro Feroze, a stronghold of Jatois, was shut down in reaction to his arrest. "I am being forced to bow down through such fake cases but I won't," said Jatoi while talking to the media after he was arrested.
