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Police Raid Rao Anwar House, Unable To Arrest Him

Islamabad (January 30, 2018):After Supreme Court’s deadline to arrest former SSP Malir Rao Anwar, wanted in Naqeebullah murder case, ended on Tuesday, Police raided his Islamabad residence but no arrests were made.

According to the details, the capital city police raided a house in search of suspended SSP Malir Rao Anwar in the city’s F-10 vicinity but remained unsuccessful.

Islamabad police assisted Karachi police including teams from the Counter Terrrorism Department (CTD) and Crime Branch (CB) that continue to search for the suspended police official who, according to sources, was present in the federal capital.

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According to Islamabad police, Anwar’s residence in F-10/4 was raided by a Karachi police team, which had registered its arrival to the city with Shalimar police station on Monday.

A ‘wanted’ poster seeking information about whereabouts of the absconding police officer has also been pasted outside the house.

Anwar and the raiding police party officials went into hiding soon after an inquiry committee was formed, following claims of innocence from Naqeebullah’s family. An FIR was registered against the suspended SSP and his associates, owing to their no-show and alleged involvement in the case.The committee, headed by Counter-Terrorism Department Additional IG Sanaullah Abbasi, submitted its report on the case to the Supreme Court on Friday, which stated that Naqeebullah was killed in a ‘fake encounter’ with the police.

Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh AD Khawaja Sunday wrote a letter to intelligence agencies, seeking their help in arresting Anwar.

The Sindh IGP has requested the intelligence agencies to provide technical and intelligence assistance.The letter for assistance reads that Anwar reached Islamabad through a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight on the morning of January 20 and attempted to flee to Dubai on January 23, but was barred from doing so by immigration officials.

The former the SSP Malir is wanted by the authorities in connection to the murder case of Naqeebullah Mehsud — who along with four suspected terrorists — was killed in an ‘exchange of fire’ with a police team led by Anwar on January 13 in Shah Latif Town, Karachi.

Meanwhile, a man who allegedly announced a Rs5 million head money for Anwar on Facebook was remanded into police custody for two days to be transferred from Rawalpindi to Karachi. The remand was granted by anti-terrorism court (ATC) Judge Sulaiman Baig.Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said an inquiry committee was constituted in Naqeebullah case which gave its report within 48 hours and following its recommendations the action has been taken in true letter and spirit.

He was speaking to media in Karachi after the launch of European Union-assisted Programme for Improved Nutrition in Sindh.

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Responding to a question, the chief minister said that he doesn’t know where Rao Anwar is hiding, but “I know that no accused is more powerful than the law”.

He added that the police were working hard to arrest Anwar, and all other provincial governments and agencies have been requested to help.

Naqeebullah, a 27-year-old hailing from South Waziristan, was among four men killed in an alleged encounter with a police team headed by Anwar in the Usman Khaskheli Goth on the outskirts of Karachi.

Anwar had insisted at the time that Naqeebullah was a militant affiliated with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). But an inquiry committee on the issue later ruled that the encounter was staged.

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