The Sindh cabinet has extended the term of the judicial commission investigating the Mir Raza Ali murder case.Sources within the Sindh cabinet said the commission’s term has been extended until October 15. The extension was approved to allow the commission to continue its proceedings and complete its investigation into the case.It is to be noted that on September 28, the Judicial Commission probing the Mir Raza Ali case adjourned the hearing until October 2 after end of the tenure.Mir Raza Ali’s family members, Mir Hussain Ali Khan, Maryam Hussain and Alishba Khan, appeared before the commission.

Javed Ahmed Abro, Additional Secretary and focal person of the Sindh Home Department, also attended the proceedings. DSP Siraj Lashari and Kashif Iftikhar, Assistant Chief of Operations at the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), were also present before the commission. According to the written order, the commission’s term expired on Sunday, while a request seeking an extension had already been submitted to the Sindh government.Mir Raza Ali, a 25-year-old businessman and IBA graduate, went missing on July 28, 2026. His body was found the next day in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Karachi, with a gunshot wound. 

Raza’s family maintained that he had been abducted and murdered, while the initial police investigation reportedly considered the possibility of suicide, creating major controversy. At his family’s request, a court ordered his exhumation and a second post-mortem. The later medical report concluded that the gunshot entered from the back and exited through the front, and said the findings were inconsistent with suicide. A judicial commission headed by Sindh High Court Justice Omar Sial is now examining the circumstances of his death and possible negligence in the investigation. Witnesses, police officials, medical personnel and his business associates have been questioned.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)