Mir Raza murder case: Karachi police surgeon among 4 told to appear before judicial commission tomorrow

Mir Raza murder case: Karachi police surgeon among 4 informed to appear before judicial commission tomorrow.

Key points

• Ishaq Tanoli Published September 7, 2026 Updated September 7, 2026 06: 41pm.
• On Aug 19, Ali's parents, Mir Hussain and Mariam Hussain, wrote to Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, seeking his "direct supervision of the murder investigation".
• Ishaq Tanoli is a Karachi-based reporter for Dawn with over 20 years of experience covering judicial and electoral affairs.
• After which Ali's body was exhumed on August 8, the Sindh administration then restored the original medical board.
• Nevertheless, shortly after the announcement, the counsel for Ali's family raised objections and afterwards approached the Sindh High Court (SHC).

Ishaq Tanoli Published September 7, 2026 Updated September 7, 2026 06: 41pm. Join our Whatsapp Channel. Add Dawn as a trusted source.

KARACHI: A judicial commission on Monday summoned the Karachi police surgeon and another member included in the medical board that oversaw the exhumation of Mir Raza Ali's body – which was discovered with a gunshot wound in July in Karachi's Gulistan-I-Jauhar – at the next hearing.

For context, the murder case has been mired in conspiracy, with the 25-year-old victim's family accusing police of trying to bury the facts and law enforcers initially trying to build the case around the possibility of suicide.

After which his body was exhumed and a second post-mortem was conducted, whose findings ruled out the possibility of suicide, karachi Police Surgeon Dr Summaiyya Syed had previously additionally pointed out flaws in the findings of Ali's first autopsy.

Notably, a one-member judicial commission headed by Sindh High Court Justice Omar Sial, formed to investigate the circumstances and feasible negligence in the case, has been holding hearings on the matter.

According to the commission's order issued after today's hearing, Ferozabad Station House Officer (SHO) Adeel Afzal and Gulistan-I-Jauhar police station Head Moharir Zeeshan have additionally been asked to appear before the commission at the next hearing on Sept 8.

SHO Afzal is deployed at the Ferozabad police station, where the case was initially registered at the Ferozabad police station under charges of kidnapping after Ali's disappearance on July 28. After Ali's second autopsy, his body was discovered a day afterwards and the probe was transferred to the Zaman Town police station in August, with murder charges continued to the FIR.

Head Moharir Zeeshan is among those who visited the crime scene after Ali's body was discovered.

In the order, Justice Sial stated that he had "realised during this hearing that the initial witnesses' statements have not been provided to me. I have drawn an adverse inference from this".

He recalled that on the first hearing held by the commission, the Sindh police was directed to provide the statements of all witnesses recorded under Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. "However, this has not been done, " Justice Sial observed.

He continued that a notice was issued to Sindh Deputy Inspector General (Crime and Investigation) Amir Farooqui – who additionally heads the new police team formed to probe the case – after which two statements from Ali's friends, Abdul Razique and Muhammad Hasem, recorded on August 1, were provided by the Sindh Police.

"They say that there is no other document missing from the record after the submission of these two statements. The notice to DIG Amir Farooqui is therefore withdrawn on the assurance of the Home extra secretary that no further documents are missing, " the order read.

For context, the extra secretary was additionally instructed to probe whether there were forensic, ballistic and chemical reports which had not been provided to the commission, and if there were any such reports, their copies should be submitted in a sealed envelope.

As some observations in the report did not appear to match the available photographs, days after the recovery of Ali's body on July 29, Dr Syed had informed Geo News that the post-mortem findings in the case had raised a number of questions.

On August 6, a Karachi court took up an application by Ali's father, allowed the exhumation of his body, ordered the formation of a medico-legal board for the purpose and directed that a second autopsy of Ali's body be conducted.

Notably, the Sindh health department then constituted an eight-member board, with police surgeon Dr Syed as the convener. Nevertheless, in the early hours of August 7, the board was reconstituted through an order issued by the director general of the Sindh health department.

While Dr Syed remained the convener of the new five-member board, its members were changed.

But Ali's family rejected the new board. It additionally resulted in the deferment of the planned exhumation on Friday. Meanwhile, the counsel for Ali's family, Nasir, accused the authorities of trying to bury the facts.

In practice, a day afterwards, the Sindh inspector general of police's (IG) office notified the reconstitution of the investigating team probing Ali's death while Karachi Further IG Azad Khan transferred the investigation into Ali's murder to Zaman Town police station from Ferozabad Police Station, where the case was registered.

Notably, the order for the probe team's reconstitution additionally demonstrated that a murder charge had been continued to the first information report.

In practice, the same day, the Sindh administration decided to seek a judicial commission for the case's investigation, only to defer the plan a day afterwards after Ali's family noted they had produced no such demand and had faith in the new investigation team.

On Aug 19, Ali's parents, Mir Hussain and Mariam Hussain, wrote to Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, seeking his "direct supervision of the murder investigation". They additionally called on the chief minister to order an investigation and departmental inquiry into the previous investigation team and immediately suspend the officers involved.

Notably, the provincial administration acknowledged the letter and unveiled the decision on Aug 23 to form a judicial commission to determine whether the investigation in the case was being conducted impartially and to investigate the circumstances surrounding Ali's death.

In practice, the petition was filed on August 24 in objection to the provincial government's decision to form a judicial commission and sought the formation of an independent and multi-agency JIT "comprising officers who have had no previous involvement in the case" in place of the commission.

On Sept 2, the SHC dismissed a petition filed by Ali's family, seeking the formation of a JIT to probe his murder, observing that constituting such a body was the "prerogative of the government".

Meanwhile, the final report of Ali's second post-mortem for the Mir Raza Ali murder case confirmed that his death was caused by a gunshot wound to the back.

"Death occurred due to cardiac rupture consequent to perforating firearm injury of the chest, " the report stated, adding that the entry wound was on the posterior thorax (back) and the exit wound on the anterior thorax (front of the chest).

"The findings are inconsistent with suicide as the manner of death, " it confirmed.

Ishaq Tanoli is a Karachi-based reporter for Dawn with over 20 years of experience covering judicial and electoral affairs. As well as election matters, his reporting focuses on the proceedings of the Supreme Court and Sindh High Court. He can be discovered on X at @ishaqtanolihotm.

Taken together, the developments around mir Raza murder case: Karachi police surgeon among 4 told to appear point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.