Mir Raza | Pakistan

The family of slain Mir Raza has rejected the Sindh government’s decision to form a judicial commission to investigate the case and called for the constitution of a joint investigation team (JIT).

KARACHI: Investigators probing the murder case of young businessman Mir Raza Ali have sought the technical expertise of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) to unlock the deceased’s digital footprint, it emerged on Wednesday. IBA graduate and owner of the eatery Wafflix Mir Raza had gone missing on July 28 and his bullet-riddled body was found a day later in bushes near Shahi Qila Ground in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. A seven-member team, headed by DIG Amir Farooqui, is currently investigating the case. Sources said they are trying to retrieve Raza’s “digital records / WhatsApp account details” through the NCCIA to determine whether there is anything suspicious. Police will not rest until killers are exposed, IGP tells Abad They believe that unlocking his digital footprint could help untangle the case. The sources said that the investigation team also recorded the statement of the online cab driver who dropped Mir Raza in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on July 28. Abad expresses concern over Raza’s murder, extorti...

There is a particular cruelty in a name being spoken twice by death. Once when it is buried. And once when it is dug up again, because the truth could not rest with it. Mir Raza, the son of Mir Hassan Ali Khan, and Wafflix business owner, was laid into the earth of Rehorania Masjid graveyard on the 29th of July. Eleven days later, a board of doctors, a police surgeon, a magistrate, and a family that refused to let silence be the final word stood over that same soil and opened it again. I have read the report. I do not think I will ever be able to unread it. It is written in the flat, careful language that medicine keeps for what it cannot otherwise bear to say. Somewhere inside that distance is a twenty-five-year-old man who once had a face his mother could recognise without being told his name. What the doctors found confirmed what the family had feared all along, that Mir Raza did not simply die. He was taken from them. And when asked, plainly, whether his wounds came before death, someone circled a single ...

The planned exhumation of Karachi businessman Mir Raza's grave was postponed on Friday after authorities constituted a third medical board to oversee the process in connection with the investigation into his alleged murder.