Dost Mazari sent to jail on judicial remand.

LAHORE -- A judicial magistrate sent former deputy speaker Punjab Assembly Dost Muhammad Mazari to jail on judicial remand on Friday, in an alleged land scandal.

Judicial Magistrate Ghulam Murtaza Virk conducted the case proceedings, wherein Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Punjab officials produced the former deputy speaker on expiry of his one-day physical remand.

The ACE prosecutor submitted that the investigations had not been completed from the former deputy speaker. He requested the court to extend the physical remand for forensic audit of the documents and completing the investigations.

However, Mazari's counsel opposed the remand plea, saying that it was the fourth time that the prosecution was requesting for extension in...