SC fixes Arshad Sharif killing case for hearing on Thursday.

ISLAMABAD -- The Supreme Court has fixed suo motu case of prominent journalist Arshad Sharif's assassination for hearing on Thursday.

A five-member larger bench led by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Umar Ata Bandial will conduct the hearing on the case at 1pm on January 5, media reported on Monday.

Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar, Justice Jamal Khan Mandukhel and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazahar are also part of the bench.

Following the last hearing of the case on December 7, the federal government informed the Supreme Court that a joint investigation team (JIT) had been formed to probe into the murder of the journalist in Kenya.

The special JIT is led by Islamabad Police DIG Headquarters Awais Ahmed and has four other members - namely Muhammad Aslam from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Murtaza Afzal from the Military Intelligence (MI), Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Waqaruddin Syed, and Sajid Kayani of the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

A five-judge bench of the SC, led by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, and comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Jamal Mandokhail, Justice Sayyed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi and...

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