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India-Pakistan
Naqeebullah killing: Rao Anwar refuses to appear before probe team
2018-01-22
[GEO.TV] Suspended Malir SSP Rao Anwar refused to appear before the inquiry committee, formed to probe extrajudicial murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud, after committee member DIG Sultan Khawaja asked him to appear at the DIG East's office at 11 pm on Sunday.

Mehsud, a 27-year-old native of Wazoo, was among four suspected turbans killed in an ’exchange of fire’ with a police team headed by SSP Anwar on January 13 in Shah Latif Town. However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
his family later stated that Naqeebullah was innocent and bumped off in a fake encounter.

An inquiry team, headed by Counter Terrorism Department Additional IG Sanaullah Abbasi, was formed to probe the incident. The committee ordered the suspension of Anwar and other officials involved in the incident as well as placement of Anwar's name on the Exit Control List.

Speaking to Geo News, Anwar said that he will not appear at the DIG East's office.

He also said that he has not yet made a decision regarding his appearance at the SSP's office at 1pm on Monday.

DIG East Sultan Khawaja, however, reached his office at 11pm. Speaking to media there, he said that no [criminal] record has been found of Naqeebullah from different cop shoppes. "KP police have also not found any criminal record of him."

He said that they are not under any pressure on Anwar's issue and that they are only following the orders of the Supreme Court.

"If complaints are received then case will be registered, and action will be taken in the same way," he told news hounds, when asked about past encounter by Anwar.

The DIG East said that Anwar and his team were summoned today, but they did not appear, adding that the suspended official and his team members' phones are also switched off.

He maintained that the inquiry team wants to conduct transparent investigations [into Naqeebullah's killing] and listen to Anwar.

Earlier in the evening, Khawaja said the probe body will again meet at the office of the DIG East at 11pm to refute Anwar's earlier claims of not being summoned by the committee.

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