{"id":73539,"date":"2026-09-09T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/73539"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:17:42","slug":"questions-raised-over-authenticity-of-test-fire-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/73539","title":{"rendered":"Questions raised over authenticity of test-fire shells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>KARACHI: Fresh doubts have emerged in the investigation into the murder of Mir Raza after test-fire shells sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) by an arms dealer were allegedly found to be fake.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to information obtained by ARY News, the pistol used by Mir Raza\u2019s security guard was purchased from a private shop in Saddar on March 11, 2024. Four pistols were sold from the shop on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Sindh Arms Act, two test-fire shells from every weapon sold, along with the licence, CNIC and a copy of the sealed invoice, are required to be sent to the Garden FSL.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the arms dealer was required to fire each pistol twice and send the shells to the FSL. However, the four shells submitted by the dealer were allegedly fake. Three shells belonged to one pistol and one to another.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shocking Revelations In Mir Raza Murder Investigation\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88Bhm-dztkw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>A shell recovered from the crime scene in Gulistan-e-Johar on August 7 was later sent to the forensic division. The report issued on August 10 stated that the shell recovered from the crime scene did not match the security guard\u2019s pistol.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the incorrect forensic match was caused by the fake shells submitted by the arms dealer. The chemical and forensic report of these shells was also included in the interim challan and the report submitted to the judicial commission.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Sindh Police spokesperson confirmed ARY News\u2019 report regarding the shell recovered from the crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the shell was received by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) through a memo on August 7, while the forensic report was issued on August 10.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesperson said the forensic report has been part of the case file from the beginning and was also included in the documents submitted to the Sindh High Court commission along with the initial supplementary challan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesperson, the forensic laboratory identified negligence by the arms dealer and recommended action against him.<\/p>\n<p>The Sindh Police also clarified that the impression that the crime-scene shell was submitted to the forensic laboratory late was incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the shell used in the crime was personally submitted to the forensic laboratory by the investigation officer.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that after recovery of the pistol allegedly used in the crime, the process of verifying the shell will be carried out again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/mir-raza-murder-case-questions-raised-over-authenticity-of-test-fire-shells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Fresh doubts have emerged in the investigation into the murder of Mir Raza after test-fire shells sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) by an arms dealer were allegedly found to be fake. According to information obtained by ARY News, the pistol used by Mir Raza\u2019s security guard was purchased from a private shop in Saddar on March 11,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1788974262_Mir-Raza-Ali-14-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":4889,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":4889,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73541,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539\/revisions\/73541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}