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| Will make efforts to get justice for victims of fake encounters: Siyal |
| 2018-01-31 |
| [GEO.TV] Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal on Tuesday said that he will make his 'best efforts' to get justice for all victims of fake encounters and extrajudicial killings. Speaking on Geo News' programme Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath, Siyal said the provincial government has improved Sindh's security situation as much as the 'law' and 'authority vested in it' has allowed. "Why just Rao Anwar's case?" he said, "I will pursue all cases [of extrajudicial killings.]" Responding to a question about the absconding police officer's recent statement to media that denied ownership of the house that the police had conducted a raid on, claiming to be the property of Anwar, Siyal said he will probe into the matter. "I will ask the police why someone else’s house was raided if it does not belong to Anwar and what was the information received by the police that led to the decision of the raid," he said, adding that such ill-informed raids are creating a bad image of the police department. Tactfully sidestepping a question about the police department's unchecked powers over an unprotected section of the society, the provincial minister lamented the lack of powers vested in the Sindh government. "The Sindh government does not have the power to appoint a police officer. This was the case in Rao Anwar's matter too, who reported to the Sindh Inspector General of Police [AD Khawaja]," he said. "The 18th amendment of the Constitution says that law and order is not the provincial government's domain," he said. "According to a high court judgement, I am sorry to say, the provincial government is an outsider [in law and order cases.]" |
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