The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) officials shot dead four persons, together with a couple, their 13-year-old daughter and a friend of the family within the presence of 3 kids on Saturday.
The incident took place near the Sahiwal toll plaza, wherever members of the CTD killed the automotive riders in cold blood, accusing them of being terrorists, on Saturday afternoon.
The deceased was known as Khalil, his wifeNabeela, daughter Areeba, and Khalil’s friend. Mystery shrouded the shooting incident because the CTD officers kept changing their statements when the killings; first declaring them kid kidnappers, and so soundtrack them as terrorists.
The CTD claimed that the automotive riders had opened fire on the raiding party, that had tried to intercept the vehicle moreover as a bike on the most road. The family within the automotive additionally included 3 kids, 2 sisters and a brother, {and the|and therefore the|and also the} living boy also sustained minor injuries.
The bruised kid, Khalil’s son Umair Khalil, told the media persons that his folks, sister and an admirer of his father were killed in police firing. He said the incident took place once they were on their way to attend the marriage ceremony of his uncle Rizwan in Burewala.
He said they were moving from Tariqabad (Kot Lakhpat) area of the city to Burewala (Sahiwal) once the police opened hearth on their vehicle.
He said his father had asked the law-enforcers to check their vehicle and told them that there were no weapons. However, the police didn’t pay any heed and opened fire, killing his parents on-site.
Eyewitnesses contradicted the CTD statements and said the car-riding family didn’t shoot at the officials.
“No weapons were found with the bodies,” they said. The eyewitnesses said the kids told them at a close-by gas station that the “police killed their parents”.
Following the firing incident, the CTD officials initial abandoned the kids at a petroleum station. However, later on, they came back and took them to some undisclosed location, and so to an area hospital.
A CTD voice said the operation was conducted as a follow-up of associate action carried out in the city on Jan 16.
“The automotive was coming from the city and therefore the women killed were 40 and 13 years previous, severally.”
The CTD additionally claimed that there were 3 different suspected terrorists on-site, WHO managed to escape.
“They were known as Shahid Jabbar, Abdul Rehman, and their helper,” the CTD voice accessorial.
Earlier, the CTD officers claimed that the four folks were kidnappers, however, later on, dubbed them as terrorists.
The CTD known one in all the deceased as Zeeshan. The department aforesaid that he was wished for many crimes, together with the kidnapping of Ali Haider Gilani, son of former premier Yusuf Raza Gilani, and a number of other American nationals.
The CTD also claimed that he was the deputy chief of a banned outfit.
Reportedly, the kids were in a vicinity hospital at the time of filing of the report, that had been cordoned off utterly, and nobody was being allowed to enter the emergency department.
Ironically, the crime scene was preserved, neither by the CTD nor by the realm police.
Taking notice of the incident, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday contacted Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar and sought-after a report on the incident.
He ordered for conducting a clear and careful inquiry into the incident.
Also, on the order of the Punjab chief minister, the CTD officers, who took half within the action, are inactive.
Inspector General of Police Punjab Amjad Javed Salimi has additionally set up a four-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the incident.
further immunoglobulin establishment Punjab are going to be the top of the team, and one every representative from the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence and the IB would be a part of the JIT. The team can submit its report among 3 days.
Meanwhile, information Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Saturday Prime Minister Imran Khan contacted Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar and asked him to right away reach Sahiwal and required transfer facts to the fore.
In a video clip, the minister noted that the Counter-Terrorism Department had claimed that terrorists had been gunned down within the incident, whereas the media reports and interviews of the kids of the victims, were telling something else.
He aforesaid action would be taken against the CTD raiding party members and they would be created associateexample if found to be guilty of any wrong-doing.
“And, if CTD’s version is found correct and they (deceased) were terrorists, then that might even be shared with the state.
On each ways, details would be shared with folks,” the minister accessorial. He noted that once the incident happened, the chief minister was away from the city and the PM contacted him and directed him to right away reach Sahiwal.
Later within the evening, the chief minister reached Sahiwal from Mianwali and visited the kids at the DHQ Hospital.
Meanwhile, the officer of police (IGP), Punjab, took notice of the incident. He sought associate inquiry report on the incident from the Sahiwal RPO and the Punjab CTD. The CTD submitted its initial report relating to the incident to the IGP.
in keeping with the report, the CTD team did a joint intelligence-based operation during which four terrorists connected with the defunct organisation Daesh were killed, whereas, weapons and explosive material was confiscatefrom their possession.
The report aforesaid the CTD team tried to intercept terrorists, who were riding a automotive and a bike close to the Sahiwal tract, however, they opened hearth on the CTD team, and a gunfight ensued. once the firing stopped, four persons, together with 2 girls, were found dead by the firing of their accomplices. 3 terrorists fled the scene.
The CTD said that the operation was in continuation of the operation conducted then city on january 16.
The CTD was chase the remaining terrorists of Red Book particularly Shahid Jabbar and Abdul Rehman.
in keeping with the CTD, this is often the Daesh Network that killed 3 Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence officers in Multan, one policeman in the city and kidnapped american national Warren Weinstein and Ali Haider Gilani, son of former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani.
The network had additionally killed dozens of individuals in blasts and firing. it absolutely was the foremost dangerous network of Daesh in Punjab.
Meanwhile, members of the family, relatives, friends and locals staged a demonstration in the city on Saturday and blocked the most Ferozpur Road against the killings.
The protesters burnt tyres in protest and musical slogans against the Punjab Police and therefore the CTD and demanded immediate action against the culprits.
A terrible traffic mess was witnessed on the Ferozpur Road Chungi Amar Sidhu as thousands of motorists remained stuck nearly for hours.
However, the protesters distributed whenobtaining assurance that a policeman would accompany the family to Sahiwal so bodies may well be handed over to the heirs with none hassle.
