QUETTA (INP): The Balochistan police has suspended an official following a viral video on social media where he could be seen along with other personnel expressing solidarity with Afghan refugees facing deportation from Pakistan.
This development was confirmed by Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti, who said Arbab Dawood Kasi, the official involved in making the said TikTok video, has been suspended. He further said that action was being taken to sack the police official from duty. According to other media reports, three policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector, seen in the viral video have been suspended.
In the video, Kasi could be seen criticising the government for deporting the allegedly illegal Afghan refugees, and requested his fellow security officials not to treat the Afghans inappropriately. He goes on to say that after the video, even if he was suspended he wouldn’t mind, and move to Afghanistan for work where he would be treated with respect. He also mentioned how the properties of all the Afghans being forced to leave Pakistan had been occupied and their houses razed.
In another video, uploaded to his TikTok account boasting over 50,000 followers apparently following his suspension from duty, Kasi says he was not worried at all as he had sacrificed his duty for the Afghans. “I’m from the family of Aimal Kansi. I have no tension about losing my job,” he ends the clip with laughter.
Taking notice of the viral video, Balochistan Police Inspector General Abdul Khaliq Sheikh ordered the police personnel to be suspended. He added that they were trying to identify other personnel in the video – clad in Anti-Terrorism Force uniforms — and that action would be taken against them as well.
IGP said every police officer in Balochistan should keep patriotism and rule of law above everything else.
Policeman suspended
