KARACHI : Standing firm against all charges, suspended SSP Malir Rao Anwaron Thursday demanded formation of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT)comprising members of intelligence agencies to probe the ‘extrajudicial’killing of 27-year-old Naqeebullah.
In a statement issued to media, the beleaguered cop has once again termedcharges again him as ‘baseless’. He said all the allegations have beenlevelled by officers holding a personal grudge against him.
This was his first official statement after going underground. However, hedispelled reports of going into hiding in his recent statement, as what hesaid, going somewhere to meet family members doesn’t violate any law. Heaccused the investigating officers of misleading the family of Naqeebullah,while stating that he would soon appear before the courts.
Expressing no confidence in investing committee, Anwar said that he wouldsoon disclose concrete evidences against the inquiry committee head AIGSanaullah Abbasi and other Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officials,adding, their own hands are not clean. He also questioned AIG Abbasi’scompetency of conducting successful operations, asking him to enumerate thenumber of successful operations conducted under his command.
On the other hand, police carrying out raids to arrest former SSP Malir RaoAnwar and seven other policemen nominated in FIR of Naqeebullah Mehsud’sextrajudicial killing.
DIG East Sultan Khawaja said police have also conducted overnight raids inKarachi on Tuesday to make an arrest but no major breakthrough could beachieved as the suspended cops have turned off their mobile phones and wentunderground.
On the occasion, he shared the identity of another killed alongsideNaqeebullah as Nazar Jan, adding, the deceased was picked up from SohrabGoth on 18 May 2017.
A large number of people including the family members and relatives ofkilled men are staging protests in Karachi’s outlying Sohrab Goth area. Theprotesters have been calling a judicial inquiry into the extrajudicialkillings.
Naseemullah better known as Naqeebullah Mehsud was a 27-year-old from SouthWaziristan. He was recently killed in an alleged police encounter inKarachi.
Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar was heading the policeraiding team, which claimed to kill three terrorists in Karachi’s ShahLatif Town.
The SSP Malir said he has sufficient evidence that the slain youth was aterrorist but family members, relatives and friends remember him as aperson who loved to take care of himself and wanted to become a model.
According to reports, the handsome and well-dressed young man was fond oftaking selfies and pictures and he wished to see his son as a Pakistan Armyofficer. After going through his pictures one can see that he aspired tobecome a model.