Summary The security personnel nabbed him when he was trying to flee abroad.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Former Malir Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwar was deplaned from Dubai-bound flight at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Tuesday.
According to details, the security personnel stopped him when he was trying to flee abroad via private airline’s flight EK-653. He was told that he cannot be allowed to travel due to the ongoing investigation against him.
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that Anwar has not been arrested and only his flee attempt has been foiled. Rao Anwar is barred from leaving the country as his name has been placed in Exit Control List (ECL) following the alleged encounter of Naqeebullah Mehsud in Karachi.
However; Rao denies that he was trying to leave the country saying that all such news on the media is false.
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The jirga in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth area has 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.
Anwar says he may have been mistaken
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.
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.
“I have not been trusted … I did not have bad intentions and might have been mistaken,” Rao Anwar said while talking to Kamran Khan on Dunya News programme.
“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.
Not a terrorist
Mehsud, a 27-year-old hailing from South Waziristan, was gunned down on January 13 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.
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TTP commander, imprisoned in Karachi Central Jail, Qari Ahsan also said that he never heard of any operative named Naqeebullah Mehsud.
