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03:22 Aug 08, 2026
• Corpse of IBA graduate to be dug up for fresh autopsy today • Exhumation planned for Friday postponed after family objected to abrupt reconstitution of board KARACHI: After a day of uncertainty over the exhumation of the body of IBA graduate and businessman Mir Raza Ali, the Sindh government on Friday evening restored the original medical board, which is set to exhume the body on Saturday (today). The exhumation, which was scheduled for Friday morning, was postponed after Raza’s family objected to the abrupt reconstitution of a medical board and inclusion of members from outside Karachi division. Raza’s body was found in bushes in Gulistan-i-Jauhar last month, a day after he went missing on July 28. On Thursday, a judicial magistrate had allowed the exhumation of the body on an application filed by Raza’s father, Mir Hussain Ali, directing the police surgeon and the Sindh health secretary to constitute a medical board for the exhumation. The Sindh health department then constituted an eight-member board, wi...