KARACHI – The suicide attack upon the convoy of the SSP Rao Anwar few daysago turned out to be fake as the real facts have been revealed. The familymembers of a man accused of being a suicide attack, gunned down by Karachipolice earlier this month, protested after officials refused to hand overhis body.
Gul Saeed was allegedly involved in a suicide attack on SSP Rao Anwar onJanuary 16, and was one of two militants killed by the police in the’incident’.
Saeed’s family, however, has rejected the claim and insisted that he was adriver who lived in Karachi’s Orangi Town.
The man’s brother, Mohammad Shoaib, said police had refused to issue ano-objection certificate to the family, demanding that the family bring hisnational identity card and agree to a DNA test since they have no record ofthe deceased.
The family, outraged at the demands, took away Saeed’s body by force.However, after negotiations with the police, they returned the corpse tothe mortuary.
Earlier this month, a suicide bomber had reportedly blown himself up nearAnwar’s convoy when he was on his way to his house in Malir Cantt. Twoother attackers were said to have been killed in ‘retaliatory fire’ bypolicemen. The former Malir SSP had remained unhurt.
However, that version of events has been contested since it was uncoveredthat a separate encounter had been staged in which an innocent man —27-year-old Naqeebullah Mehsud — had been gunned down on Rao Anwar’s watch