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JIT Formed to Probe Sahiwal Police Encounter

LAHORE: The IG Punjab Amjad Javed Saleemi has formed Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the killing of four terrorists in an alleged police encounter in Sahiwal on Saturday.

The additional DIG establishment Punajb police Aijaz Shah will lead the JIT the representatives of ISI, MI and IB will be the members of it.

The JIT will prepare its report in three days and will be submitted to IG Punjab.

Earlier, in the day the Punjab police claimed to have killed four terrorists including two women in an intelligence-based operation in Sahiwal district of Punjab.

A child travelling in the car with the deceased also sustained minor injuries.

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab police said the passengers of the car opened fire on officers who were trying to intercept the vehicle and a motorcycle on GT Road.

The police also claimed that the slain were linked to a group involved in the kidnapping of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s son and other crimes.

 A child who was travelling in the car claimed that his parents, sister and a friend of his father was killed in police firing.