...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on Monday indicted former Malir SSP Rao Anwar and 17 others for the murder of
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Wazoo native Naqeebullah Mehsud in a fake encounter in Karachi.Anwar and the other accused, who were in the courtroom when the charges were framed against them, pleaded 'not guilty'.
The court ordered the complainant and the magistrate, who recorded the testimonies of eyewitnesses, to appear on April 11 and adjourned the hearing until then.
Anwar, along with former deputy superintendent of police Qamar and three others who are accused in the case, are out on bail, while 13 police officials are in jail on judicial remand.
An inquiry team probing the Jan 2018 'extrajudicial killing' of Naqeebullah found that the Waziristan native was killed in a "fake encounter" which was "staged" by the former Malir SSP. Following the inquiry team's findings, Anwar was suspended from his post.
Rao Anwar, however, has stuck to the claim that Naqeeb was a Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain bully boy. No evidence has emerged to support this claim.
The killing of the young Mehsud had sparked widespread protests by the civil society and then chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar took suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means
I saw what you did, you bastard...
notice of the killings. But a formal trial of the case had not been initiated until now.
After eluding law enforcers for two months and upon being offered opportunities by retired Justice Nisar to surrender, the former SSP had finally appeared before the Supreme Court and was subsequently tossed in the clink
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in Islamabad in March last year.