The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday extended the interim pre-arrest bail given to Pakistan Peoples Party MNA Jam Abdul Karim in the Nazim Jokhio murder case till April 11.
A single judge bench headed by Justice Omar Sial directed the lawmaker to deposit a surety bond of Rs100,000.
The lawyer for PPP MNA argued that the final charge sheet of the case has not been filed before any court and is still being vetted at prosecutor general office.
Earlier in the day, Jam Abdul Karim returned from Dubai to cast his vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan in the no-confidence motion to oust the former.
The lawmaker landed in Karachi at 5:00 am, hours after Shireen Jokhio, widow of Nazim Jokhio, 27, who was purportedly tortured to death at Karim’s farmhouse, pardoned the suspects in the murder.
Widow of #NazimJokhio says she has pardoned lawmaker #JamAbdulKarim of @PPP_Org, and other accused in the murder of her husband without taking anything in return because she was abandoned by her own people and didn’t have the capacity to fight the case pic.twitter.com/qbEBrQjKBM
— Naimat Khan (@NKMalazai) March 30, 2022
In a video message, Shireen said she wanted to fight and pursue the matter but had been left “all alone by her own people” before adding she took the decision to pardon the killers out of compulsion and for the safety of her children.
Earlier, the MNA had secured a protective bail until April 3 from the SHC in the case to travel back to participate in the no-trust vote.
His brother, Jam Awais Bijar, a Sindh lawmaker of the party, is also accused in the case.
