Naimat Khan
KARACHI: Family of a youth – named Nasimullah Mehsud alias Naqib Mehsud, who hails from Waziristan in tribal areas of Pakistan – Wednesday claimed that Mehsud was picked up by police on January 3, some ten days before infamous encounter specialist, SSP Malir Rao Anwar, gunned down him in a staged encounter.
Rao Anwar, who had been facing courts for staged encounters in past, on last Saturday claimed that he killed four suspected militants who were involved in several high-profile terror cases and had ties with terrorist outfits Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) and the militant Islamic State (IS).
“Mehsud came to Karachi in 2018 and had been doing labor job of loading steel with his maternal uncle,” Noor Rehman Mehsud, his cousin told The Frontier Post.
His family shifted to Karachi after operation Rah-e-Nijat from Razmak village of Tehsil Makeen of South Waziristan. He was married and has three kids, including 9 years old Naila, seven years old Aleena and two years old Son Atif, who he wanted to join Pakistan Army, said his cousin.
“Naqib was picked up by police from Sher Agha Hotel near Chapel garden at Sohrab Goth whereas we were informed on January 17 by Chippa about his dead body,” Mehsud said, adding that dead body will be taken to Dera Ismail Khan for funeral.
According Mehsud, cousin of the deceased, Naqib had no link with any terrorist organization. The family plans to stage protest in Dera Ismail Khan and Islamabad. “We will march towards the united nation office in Islamabad to protest the cool-blooded murder our beloved brother by police,” his cousin told this scribe. On Monday, April 18, 2016, the Sindh High Court (SHC) had ordered police to register FIR against SSP, Malir Rao Anwar, over alleged ‘staged encounter’ of a person a year earlier.
Father of a victim, Amir, moved to the court against infamous police official, who is not only alleged of land grabbing but killing innocent people for money as well.
The victim father lodged an application in the court in which he has accused SSP Anwar of killing his son in a fake encounter.
“Amir was picked up police on Oct 9 last year from Malir district, and after the passage of a few days, he was killed in a staged encounter” he maintained in his petition.
He has nominated SSP Malir, SHO Gadap and SHO Sohrab Goth in his application. The court, while admitting the plea for hearing, directed police to register a case against SSP Rao Anwar under the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and submit a report in the court.
In February this year, a former reporter, who left reporting in a local newspaper for taking charge of the Public Relation Officer in the Fisheries department, and who was later picked up by the plainclothes men on October 3 last year, was killed by Rao in encounter.
“My son Zahid left the house on his Motorcycle on October 4 around 1 o’clock in the afternoon but his phone switched off after an hour,” his father told The Frontier Post, adding his son was last seen at around 1:45pm in the Bolton market, which is near to their house.
After Hussain didn’t come back, the family went to Baghdadi police station in Lyari locality but the police refused to lodge FIR. The family subsequently filed a petition in Sindh High Court on October 12, 2015.
It was in November last year that men in plain clothes, accompanied by policemen, brought Zahid to home blindfolded and asked as where was his pistol. When told that Zahid had no pistol, the men took him back and seized his laptop, his father recalls the last time he saw his elder son, who is survived by two sons and a wife.
