ISLAMABAD – A report prepared by the HRCP over Naqeebullah Mehsud murderhas revealed horrifying facts. His left hand was either dislocated orfractured. There were cigarette burn marks on his body and bruises near theeyes and back of the ear. Injury marks were also visible at the back of thehead,” the NCHR team quoted Rehman as saying.
When asked about his statement given to police, Rehman – who had receivedNaqeebullah’s body from the morgue – told the inquiry team that he disownedthe contents of that statement as he was forced to sign it under duress bythe police.
“Otherwise the body of Naqeebullah would not have been handed over to us,”he said.
Other representatives of the local community told the inquiry team that intheir area, police had been running a well-organised system of ‘extortionthrough abduction’.
“Pakhtun immigrants, especially from tribal areas, are an easy prey ofpolice abductions because they can be easily blackmailed after beinglabeled as Taliban or terrorists,” read the NCHR report.
Naqeebullah’s brother-in-law informed the team that the ‘murdered’ youthwanted to run a cloth store and had paid Rs110,000 to one Nazak Mir astoken money for two shops. According to community elders, this paymentbrought him to the notice of “an extortion gang run by Rao Anwar”.
They said Mir was known as Anwar’s tout in this business of extortion andmight have tipped off police regarding Naqeebullah.