Saleem Shahzad murder case: Commission decides to visit Sarai Alamgir
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission on Wednesday decided to visit the places from where journalist Saleem Shahzad’s car and dead body were found, and also to meet his wife.
This was decided in a meeting held at the Supreme Court (SC) building with SC judge Justice Mian Saqib Nisar in the chair.
Talking to the media at the SC building, Pervaiz Shaukat, a member of the commission and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists president said, although the commission had obtained the mobile phone records of Shahzad, however, they were unable to get a hold of his mobile phone and laptop.
He said the commission, which had been formed to investigate the killing of the journalist, under mysterious circumstances, would visit Sarai Alamgir and Mandi Bahauddin, where the victim’s car and dead body were found. Shaukat said it was also decided that the commission would meet the murdered journalist’s wife, adding that so far the methodology in this regard has not been finalised, as according to the Shariat law there is the issue of idat.
Police informed the commission that efforts were underway to locate the mobile phone and laptop of Shahzad, however, a reply had not been received from the company that had dealt with the emails.
The Judicial Commission on Wednesday recorded the statements of prominent journalist’s Tahir Ali and Naseem Zahra. Besides that it also recorded the statements of Muhammad Shafiq, the man who had taken out Shahzad’s body from the canal and Shahzad Cheema, an employee of the Edhi Foundation, Raja Ansar, a namberdar.
The commission was informed that the Centre and Punjab government were also separately investigating the matter on their own. The next session of the commission would be held on July25.
Separately, the government, on June 19, through the Law and Justice Ministry had made a request for nominating a judge of the SC to act as the president of the commission, to be constituted under section 3 of the Pakistan Commission of Inquiry Act, 1956 (Act VI of 1956), for an in depth probe of the mysterious murder of the journalist.
Source: Daily Times
Date:7/21/2011
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