Naimat Khan
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has decided to conduct judicial inquiry into the murder of Intizar Ahmed, spokesman says.
“The Sindh chief minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah received a letter from Ishtiaq Ahmed requesting him to conduct a judicial inquiry into the murder of his son Intizar Ahmed killed at Khayaban-i-Ittehad,” according to spokesman CM house Karachi.
The chief minister just after receiving the letter talked to Ashfaq Ahmed on telephone and assured him that he was going to conduct judicial inquiry as desired by him.
“Let me a day to finalize all the formalities for judicial inquiry,” he asked him. He also told him that he was with him [Ishtiaq Ahmed] to redress all his apprehensions and reservation in terms of investigation into the murder of his son Intzar Ahmed.
The chief minister has directed the chief secretary Sindh to initiate necessary process for judicial inquiry.
Nineteen-year-old Intizar Ahmed has been fatally shot by undercover ACLC officers on Khayaban-i-Ittehad in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority area on Saturday night after he failed to stop his vehicle at their signal.
After taking into custody six of the nine ACLC men accused (three have gone into hiding), DIG South-Zone Azad Khan had said that no leniency will be shown to the culprits. However, the deceased’s father is not satisfied the case will get fair treatment.
“When policemen themselves were involved in the murder of my son, how can I expect them to punish their own,” the grieving father said while asking the army chief and the chief justice to take notice of the incident.
He later sent a written request to the CM Sindh seeking a judicial inquiry, which the CM has been more than willing to accommodate.
Ishtiaq said he had seen the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of his son’s murder. “First, a black car stopped in front of my son’s car, forcing him to stop his vehicle,” he said. “Another car came from the left and then policemen in plainclothes reached there on a motorcycle. One policeman kept on shooting towards my son.”
The deceased’s father said there was an unknown girl in the car with his son and demanded that she must be brought to the fore as she is an eyewitness. “I don’t know who that girl was but she must be identified,” he said.
“I was shown the footage where the girl fled the scene,” Ishtiaq added.
Later, when the girl was identified, he said: “My son was sleeping at our home when she called him and asked him to come, after whom he left.”
