LAHORE – Former police official Abid Boxer, who is accused of severalextra-judicial killings and land grabbing, made alarming revelations, whichappears to be damaging for already embattled Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) ahead of polls, in a recent video.
The video was shared by a programme anchor on a private news channelsending shock waves across voters who are about to use their right forforming a new government in the election set to be held on July 25.
Boxer, who is also known as an encounter specialist for his allegedruthless above the law actions during the 1990s, was reportedly broughtback to Pakistan earlier this after being arrested in the UAE.
In the shocking video clip, the ex-police inspector alleged that PML-NPresident Shehbaz Sharif was involved in grabbing lands using tampereddocuments.
Explaining the reasons behind his framing in the murder cases, Abid Boxerrevealed that the former Punjab chief minister wanted to purchase landowned by his uncle but at the price of his own wish. After they failed tomake a deal, the former police official said that he and his uncle, ZafarAbbas, were nominated in a fake case of threatening a man.
He claimed that Abbas along with his family, later went abroad after hecould not bear the pressure from then chief minister.
Denying his involvement in fake encounters, Boxer asserted that he wasframed in false cases and subsequently arrested on the nod of former CM andhis son Hamza Shehbaz.
“A plot was also made to kill me in a fake encounter but remained safe asformer president Pervez Musharraf announced emergency in the country,” hesaid, adding that the court then nullified his detainment and he wasreleased.
“When Shehbaz came into power in 2008, he again started harassing me and Ihad to go to abroad by leaving my family alone,” he claimed.
On Wednesday, the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the relevant authoritiesto produce wanted criminal Abid ‘Boxer’ in court on July 27.
The orders were given as acting LHC Chief Justice Anwarul Haq took up theplea of Abid’s father-in-law, who has petitioned the court to orderauthorities to produce Abid in court following his reported extradition tothe country earlier this year.