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Sindh Government Not Trying To Save Anyone: Home Minister

Karachi (January 23, 2018): Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal said on Tuesday that the investigation committee probing the Naqeebullah killing case is going in the right direction.

Speaking to journalists after meeting police officials to ascertain the developments in the respective Naqeebullah, Intezar and Maqsood killing cases, he reiterated that the provincial government is not trying to save anyone and neither will it.

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“Having a contact with someone doesn’t mean that we have given him a license to kill,” the home minister said, referring to reports of suspended SSP Anwar’s association with Pakistan Peoples Party supremo Asif Ali Zardari.Siyal said that the government has not given permission to anyone to kill innocent persons.

The provincial home minister said that a legal process in the Naqeebullah case will be started after the registration of an FIR by the deceased’s family, which is expected today.“I will visit the families of Intezar and Maqsood today,” Siyal announced, referring to the two other victims of recent police ‘enounters’.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has summoned suspended Malir SSP Rao Anwar and senior officials of the Sindh government in the Naqeebullah killing case on January 27.

Hearing a separate case today, the Supreme Court Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar observed that they have heard reports that Anwar is not appearing before the inquiry committee.

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The court then summoned Anwar, Sindh IG AD Khawaja and the provincial advocate general.

Anwar’s name was also ordered to be placed on the ECL by the apex court. Earlier, the inquiry committee probing the case had recommended to the Interior Ministry the placement of Anwar’s name on ECL.

On January 19, the chief justice had taken a suo motu notice of the incident and summoned a report from the Sindh police chief in seven days.

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Justices Ijazul Ahsan and Umar Ata Bandial will be part of the three-member bench that takes up the case.

Earlier, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) foiled suspended Malir SSP Rao Anwar’s attempt to leave the country from the Benazir Bhutto International Airport.

According to details, the security personnel nabbed him when he was trying to flee abroad via private airline s flight EK-653.

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The FIA refused to let Anwar board a Dubai-bound flight around midnight due to his suspicious travel documents, which included a dubious NOC — reportedly issued by the Sindh government on Jan 20.

FIA officials said Anwar was not taken into custody as they did not have any such orders, adding that his name is also not on the Exit Control List.

Earlier on Monday, the jirga in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth area decided to register a case today in the presence of Naqeeb’s relatives. Rao Anwar and other police personnel involved in the encounter will be nominated in the case.The jirga has appealed the Supreme Court (SC) to form a commission and conduct day-to-day hearings.

Rao Anwar was removed from his post after inquiry committee formed to probe Mehsud s encounter in Karachi found no evidence related to his involvement in terror activities.

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Responding to his suspension and the ongoing investigation against the alleged staged encounter killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, the sacked Malir SSP defended himself saying his intentions were never wrong.

He admitted that he might have made a mistake, complaining that he has not been given a fare opportunity to defend himself.“Four terrorists were killed but people raised voice for only one.”

Anwar defended himself saying errors occur during any war, giving the example of how innocent people are killed bombing.

SSP Anwar is wanted in an inquiry into the extrajudicial murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud, a 27-year-old native of Waziristan who was among four suspected terrorists killed in an ‘exchange of fire’ with a police team on January 13 in Shah Latif Town, Karachi.Mehsud, a 27-year-old hailing from South Waziristan, was gunned down in Shah Latif Town by ‘encounter’ with a police team headed by Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwar, however; preliminary probe suggest that Mehsud was killed in cold blood and had no terror links.

His killing has sparked a social media outcry, as his family members reject claims by authorities that he was a member of the Tehreek-e-Taliban, saying he was an innocent aspiring male model.

TTP commander, imprisoned in Karachi Central Jail, Qari Ahsan also said that he never heard of any operative named Naqeebullah Mehsud.

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