Murder over half-burnt cigarette: Supreme Court upholds man’s conviction 27 years on

By Somya Panwar

SC overturns its own conviction of ex-minister Anwar Saifullah in graft case

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday overturned its own 2016 judgement convicting former federal minister for petroleum and natural resources Anwar Saifullah in a corruption reference, observing that an appellate court should not substitute its own view merely because another conclusion on the same evidence was possible. “Where a trial court has convicted an accused, but an appellate court later reassesses the entire record and acquits him, the presumption of innocence is not only reinstate...

By none@none.com (Nasir Iqbal)