ISLAMABAD – The Law Enforcement Agencies have intensified their hunt forthe missing Police SSP Rao Anwar who is now wanted in the murder ofNaqeebullahMehsud.

Reportedly Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials stopped the ex-SSPat Benazir International Airport, Rawalpindi, from boarding aninternational flight early Tuesday morning, Express News reported.

FIA officials confirmed that Anwar was stopped from travelling because theNon-Objection Certificate (NOC) he possessed was ‘suspicious’.

Authorities at BIA barred him from travelling to Dubai on flight EK-615,stating he cannot travel under current circumstances. Anwar is currentlyfacing a departmental inquiry over the alleged extrajudicial killing of a27-year-old Naseemullah alias Naqeebullah Mehsud, had gone into hidingalong with his entire team.

According to airport sources, Anwar was stopped at the immigration counterat around 2am. When asked to submit a written notification, immigrationofficials said they are not permitted to do so under order 506.

On Sunday, the Sindh Police decided to arrest former SSP Malir Rao Anwarand his entire police party.

The decision was taken during a high-level meeting of police officials inKarachi headed by Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Additional DIGSanaullah Abbasi, who is also heading a committee formed to probe into thealleged custodial killing.

Muzamil Mumtaz Meo Rajput, a practicing lawyer, had approached the courtseeking formation of a board to inquire into killings of more than 250suspects in alleged encounters by the former SSP in the city since 1992.

Rajput said he heard from many people that complaints were not lodged withany authority or the SHC against the policeman due to fear.

The petitioner recalled that since 1992 till January 15, 2018 the formerSSP had murdered innocent persons in fake police encounters and had alsolooted many persons, who were murdered.

Defying the Sindh police chief’s summons, SSP Anwar and his entire teamcomprising at least thirteen members did not appear on Monday morningbefore the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh Allah Dino Khowaja andmembers of the National Commission for Human Rights at the Central PoliceOffice.

A three-member inquiry committee – headed by Abbasi and comprising DIGSultan Khawaja and DIG Azad Khan – also recommended that names of Anwar andother policemen involved in the ‘encounter’ be placed on the ECL.