KARACHI, Sindh: A fresh official notification has reconstituted the medical board overseeing the exhumation in the Mir Raza Ali death probe, replacing the earlier eight-member panel with five members.
Dr. Summayya Syed, Police Surgeon Karachi, will remain the board’s convener. She is the only member retained from the previously notified panel.
According to the notification, Professor Dr. Zakiuddin, Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine at Dow University of Health Sciences, has joined the board. Dr. Qazi Akbar, Professor at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, and pathologist Dr. Abid Hussain Chang have also joined the panel.
Dr Wasim, Police Surgeon, Hyderabad, is the fifth member of the reconstituted medical board.
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The development comes as East Zone Police continue their investigation into Ali’s death. Police conducted another search operation at Nursery on Thursday and recovered a 30-bore pistol casing a short distance from where authorities earlier found his body. Investigators sent the casing to a forensic laboratory for analysis.
Ali, an Institute of Business Administration graduate, disappeared after leaving his home on the night of July 28. He told his family he would return within 10 minutes. His body was later found in bushes in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Jauhar area, while investigators continue to examine the circumstances surrounding his death.
