The government is to form a Mir Raza JIT — a joint investigation team in the Mir Raza Ali case — acting on the judicial commission’s recommendation.
What the commission found
An “epic failure” in the police investigation. The Sindh cabinet decided to make the report public — an unusual step, since inquiry reports in Pakistan are routinely commissioned and never released.
The commission recommended a JIT under DIG Irfan Baloch. ARY News reports the new team will also probe the police officers involved.
Why the Mir Raza JIT is actually moving
Two things appear to have made the difference: a judicial commission that named the failure in plain language, and a family that kept protesting.
Mir Raza’s father welcomed the JIT recommendation and said the protest would continue — a measured response that treats a recommendation as a step rather than an outcome.
This newspaper noted on 21 October that legal hurdles are the usual mechanism by which such recommendations lapse. Provincial minister Zia Lanjar had said a JIT would be formed “if there were no legal hurdles”. The qualification has now been cleared.
The wider pattern it breaks
This paper has recorded a run of investigations this autumn that did not reach conclusions: more than 55 railway accidents since January with no published cause, road deaths in Balochistan with no inquiry, and a Peshawar school collapse whose FIR alleges prior complaints were ignored.
A published finding of investigative failure, followed by a team to investigate the investigators, is the exception rather than the rule.
The JIT’s terms of reference and membership beyond its head have not been published.
[Image: The Express Tribune.]
Sources: The Express Tribune, ARY News.
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