The absconding MNA of Pakistan People’s Party Jam Abdul Karim Jokhio, who was nominated in the murder case of Nizam Jokhio, has not returned to Islamabad from Dubai, despite the fact that voting on the opposition’s no-confidence motion is scheduled for tomorrow.
At the request of Sindh Governor Imran Ismail, the authorities have placed MNA Jam Karim’s name on the Provisional National Identity List (PNIL), and he will be detained as soon as he sets foot on Pakistani land.
The Sindh High Court granted protective bail to the absconding MNA.
He petitioned the SHC through his counsel, requesting that he be excused from appearing in the trial court. Accepting his request, the SHC judge granted him protective bail in exchange for an Rs100,000 surety bond, asking him to appear before the trial court before or on April 3.
Mr. Jam Kamal has confirmed his flight from Dubai to Islamabad to participate in the no-confidence motion tomorrow, and he was scheduled to arrive in the federal capital today.
The PPP MNA was complicit in Nazim Jokhio’s murder. In November of last year, a tortured body of Nazim was discovered at the Malir farmhouse of PPP MPA Jam Awais. The MPA, along with his MNA brother Jam Karim and others, has been charged with the murder of Nazim after he attempted to stop his foreign guests from hunting houbara bustard.
In their charging sheet, police named the jailed MPA and four others as defendants, and MNA Jam Karim as an evading suspect.
