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Summary The petition seeks the formation of a commission to probe into the killing of Saleem Shehzad.
The petitioner filed a petition in the Lahore registry of the Supreme Court, maintaining that a judicial commission should be formed to probe into the killing of journalist Saleem Shehzad.The petitioner’s lawyer, Barrister Zafrullah, said that Shehzad was slain for revealing truth and it was the inefficacy of the government that his killers were not arrested so far. The petitioner requested the court to appoint Justice (r) Khalilur Rehman Ramday as head of the probing commission to investigate the killing of Shehzad.Shahzad, who worked for an Italian news agency and an online news site registered in Hong Kong, was found dead on May 31 after two days of disappearance.
