KARACHI - IGP Sindh has constituted a three-member committee to probe the mysterious killing of a young man belonging to South Waziristan in an alleged encounter with the District Malir police few days ago.
Additional IG CTD Sanaullah Abbasi will head a committee while DIG East Sultan Khawaja and DIG South Azad Khan are the members of the committee. The committee will also record the statements of the family, relatives and witnesses as well.
Taking notice of the outcry on social media against an alleged extrajudicial killing, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also ordered an inquiry into the matter. Bilawal tweeted on Thursday that he has asked Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal to conduct an inquiry into the case.
Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal has directed DIG Police South Zone, Karachi, to conduct an inquiry into the matter and to submit findings within 15 days.
On January 13, an encounter took place in Karachi’s Shah Latif area under the supervision of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar during which four members of banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State were claimed to be killed by police.
The situation took a U-turn after the family of the one of the suspected militant killed by the police who later identified as Naseemullah alias Naqeebullah, 27, termed his killing in a fake encounter by Malir police and demanded the police highs to conduct an inquiry against the incident.
“The deceased had a cloth shop in Sohrab Goth,” claimed his relative Noorullah Mehsud. “The police took him in custody on January 3 from a teashop located in Sohrab Goth and later killed him in a fake encounter.” He further said that the deceased was the father of three children and had arrived in Karachi about a year ago, while SSP Rao’s report claims that Naqeebullah was unmarried.
Naseemullah was the father of three minor children including two daughters and a son. He was once arrived Karachi in 2008 and worked in different mills in Hub area as labourer and then he moved back to Dera Ismail Khan after his family moved there.
He again returned to Karachi and recently residing in Sohrab Goth where he also took at least two shops on rent to run his own cloth business. But he was abducted by the plainclothes personnel from a teashop in Sohrab Goth on the evening of January 3.
Rao Anwar claimed that Naqeeb was ex-Commander Makeen South Waziristan Agency, affiliated with banned outfit TTP. “The terrorist was residing at Gulshan View Apartments, Abul Isphani road, Sohrab Goth area in Karachi,” reads a profile of Naqeeb.
“The terrorist is uneducated and got religious education from Madrassa Bahadur Khail Makeen,” it continues. SSP Rao’s profile of Naqeeb states that his brother-in-law, Sher Dawood, is the commander of TTP who motivated Naqeeb into joining the banned organisation.
“The terrorist got physical and weapon training in 2007/2008 by an Ustad Ali at a TTP training camp in Meeran Shah,” it said. The report claims that Naqeeb, in 2009, with Sher Dawood carried out attack on a military convoy in Makeen in which many military soldiers and officers were killed.
“The terrorist is a close associate of TTP commander, Wahab, involved in the Karsaz bomb blast, that took place on October 18, targeting Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming rally,” the report concludes in a 12-pointer timeline of Naqeeb’s terrorist activities.
THE ‘ENCOUNTER SPECIALIST’
Rao Anwar, called the ‘encounter specialist’ by some, is known for carrying out 'encounters' of controversial nature against outlaws and has claimed in the past to have killed militants belonging to various terrorist organisations and the then-Mohajir Qaumi Movement activists during his raids.