SAHIWAL: The lawyer, hired by heirs of Sahiwal shootout victims, claims that he is being threatened by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) to drop the case, ARY News reported Monday.
Syed Shahbaz Bukhari, in a press talk, said he had recorded threatening calls from the CTD and provided its data and record to the joint investigation team.
Bukhari was hired by Muhammad Jalil, brother of Khalil who was killed by the CTD along with her wife and daughter in the encounter on Jan 19.
He claimed that the CTD was trying to protect its personnel, guilty of killing innocent family, from prosecution. The lawyer urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to take notice of the misuse of authority by the CTD.
Four people, including two women, were killed in a shady encounter involving the Punjab police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on a highway in the Qadirabad area of Sahiwal district on Jan 19.
The Sahiwal incident sent shock waves across the country after one of the surviving children who witnessed the episode refuted the version of the CTD.
The CTD had identified one of the deceased as Zeeshan. The department says he was wanted in several cases of crime, including the kidnapping of Ali Haider Gilani, the son of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, and several American citizens. It also says he was the deputy chief of a banned outfit.
The CTD insists that Zeeshan, who was among the deceased, was an associate of a banned terror organization who would provide shelter to terrorists. He said a group of terrorists had planned an attack at some places and Zeeshan was travelling to provide them explosives.
Another man and two women were killed in the incident. They were identified as Khalil, Nabila, and Areeba, who was 14 years old. Khalil and Nabila were the parents of the injured boy. The deceased hailed from Kot Lakhpat. The CTD department came under fire for killing unarmed people in what some people calling it a ‘shady encounter’.
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