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The case that has brought much stress to the state of Pakistan, is on the verge of conclusion. Naqeebullah Mehsud, a young man from the tribal areas, was murdered extra=judicially by the former SSP Malir and his team in Karachi.
For months, the Pashtuns have been protesting against extrajudicial murders of their youth and Naqeebullah Mehsud’s death might bring an end to that ordeal for good. After he was wrongly framed for being a terrorist and killed in an encounter, the country woke up to the scourge and spoke against Anwar and his antics.
A joint investigation team of 5 members was set up to investigate the case and after months, the JIT has presented its decision. As per the JIT’s findings, Naqeebullah and 3 others with him were killed extra-judicially, as Rao Anwar and his team and demanded ransom from the young Pashtun men. The case would have gone unnoticed had it not been for Naqeebullah’s popularity on social media, who was an aspiring model with 26,000 followers on Facebook.
“The act of Rao Anwar and other policemen is terrorism as the JIT did not find any criminal record of those killed by the SSP Anwar’s team. They also misguided the media to hide the actual facts of the fake encounter. The JIT found blood stains of the two people on the carpet of one room while they also found the blood stains of all four in another room which suggested that they were killed in two rooms separately and then their bodies were dumped in a single room,” said an official who narrated the JIT report.
The report further stated that the other 3 men killed with Naqeebullah, too, did not hold any criminal records and were just as innocent. Rao Anwar, who had gone into hiding for months, surrendered himself to the honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan a couple of weeks back. Still in custody and on judicial remand, Anwar has warned the higher-ups that if he were not protected, he would spill beans that might wreak havoc.
For the first time, in decades, a rogue officer has been called out and remanded for the curse of encounters. Rao Anwar alone, has been held responsible for killing over 450 men in fake encounters. As per analysts, extrajudicial killings in Pakistan are nothing out of the norm and prevail all across the country.
Another example was of a man from Kasur who had been wrongly framed in the rape and murder of a little girl. He was later on killed in a staged encounter by the then DPO Kasur and his team.
