{"id":2377,"date":"2023-09-09T21:52:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/islamabad-court-issues-non-bailable-arrest-warrants-for-arshad-sharifs-widow-show-producer\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T21:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:52:31","slug":"islamabad-court-issues-non-bailable-arrest-warrants-for-arshad-sharifs-widow-show-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/islamabad-court-issues-non-bailable-arrest-warrants-for-arshad-sharifs-widow-show-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad court issues non-bailable arrest warrants for Arshad Sharif\u2019s widow, show producer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Islamabad district and sessions court issued non-bailable arrest warrants for slain journalist Arshad Sharif\u2019s widow, Summaiya Arshad, and the producer of his programme on ARY News<\/em>, Ali Usman.<\/p>\n

The warrants were issued over non-compliance with court summons and the witnesses\u2019 repeated failure to appear before the court to record their testimonies in the murder case of Sharif, who was shot dead<\/a> in Kenya in October last year.<\/p>\n

However, Summaiyya \u2014 Arshad\u2019s first wife \u2014 claimed while speaking to ARY News<\/em> that the court had not issued a summon to her.<\/p>\n

She further said she had no knowledge of the arrest warrant before the media reported the news.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am finding out from the media and no one told me that non-bailable arrest warrants were issued against me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Summaiya added that the FIR of her husband\u2019s murder was registered on the state\u2019s complaint and not the one filed by his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I don\u2019t know about this case or its details. I only [know] of the Supreme Court\u2019s suo motu notice case on Arshad\u2019s murder and I was present and available on all of its dates,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Sharif\u2019s second wife, Javeria Siddique, also denied receiving any summons from the sessions court.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is victimisation as I never received any summons but I have seen on social media my house address is mentioned in it. This is harassment and another attempt to silence the family of slain journalist Arshad Sharif,\u201d she posted on social media platform X.<\/p>\n

ARY News<\/em> director Ammad Yousaf also said the case was \u201cbased on an FIR (first information report) rejected by the family since day one\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe family has no idea about this trial happening. They never received any summons by the police or court nor do they want to appear to give credibility to this bogus trial,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The PTI also criticised the development.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, former Dawn<\/em> editor Abbas Nasir described the development as \u201coutrageous\u201d .<\/p>\n

The case<\/h2>\n

A fierce critic of the incumbent government and the country\u2019s military establishment, Sharif had left Pakistan in August 2022 after multiple cases of sedition<\/a> were registered against him in different cities. It was reported that he initially stayed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after leaving Pakistan and later went to Kenya, where he was murdered.<\/p>\n

Initial reports on his killing by the Kenyan media quoted local police as saying that Sharif was shot dead by police in a case of \u201cmistaken identity\u201d. But later reports from the Kenyan media reconstructed the events surrounding the killing, stating that an occupant in Sharif\u2019s car at the time of his killing was believed to have shot at paramilitary General Service Unit officers.<\/p>\n

The Pakistan government subsequently formed a team<\/a> that travelled to Kenya to investigate the killing. A progress report of the murder probe was furnished<\/a> before the Supreme Court \u2014 which has taken suo motu notice of the case \u2014 in March.<\/p>\n

The matter was also addressed in an unprecedented conference<\/a> in October last year, where the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Nadeem Ahmed Anjum had joined former Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) DG Lt Gen Babar Iftikhar to speak about the journalist\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n

The Islamabad police had registered the FIR against the murder on the orders of the Supreme Court in December 2022.<\/p>\n

The complaint was lodged by the station house officer of the Ramna police station, Rasheed Ahmed, and nominated three persons \u2014 Waqar Ahmed, Khurram Ahmed, and Tariq Ahmed Wasi.<\/p>\n

The FIR invoked Sections 302 (punishment for murder) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code.<\/p>\n

It stated that the murder took place in Kenya on October 23. The complainant said that he reached the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences on the night of October 26 when Sharif\u2019s body reached the hospital and a postmortem examination was carried out.<\/p>\n

After that, he said the medico-legal officers handed over four parcels of evidence to the police.<\/p>\n

The FIR added that according to the postmortem report, Sharif died due to the firing of ammunition.<\/p>\n

Siddique had questioned then why the case was registered on the complaint of the police when the slain journalist\u2019s family members were still alive. She had said that the FIR could only be lodged by her mother-in-law (Sharif\u2019s mother).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Islamabad district and sessions court issued non-bailable arrest warrants for slain journalist Arshad Sharif\u2019s widow, Summaiya Arshad, and the producer of his programme on ARY News, Ali Usman. 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