Police arrested five paramilitary soldiers for shooting dead a young man at point blank range in a public park in an incident filmed live and broadcast on television, officials said Thursday.
Five soldiers from the Rangers paramilitary force surrounded and shot dead 25-year-old Sabir Shah in Karachi’s most exclusive neighbourhood of Clifton late Wednesday, claiming he had tried to rob a policeman’s family.
A police official later told AFP on condition of anonymity that only a toy gun had been recovered. The public park is named after assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, whose family home is in Clifton.
Shah’s relatives took his body and protested outside the house of the chief minister of Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, demanding that the soldiers be arrested.
Footage of the incident, filmed by an unidentified cameraman, was broadcast repeatedly on local television stations.
In it, a soldier can be seen dragging the man, then throwing him towards half a dozen armed comrades, one of whom then shot the 25-year-old twice at point-blank range as he begged for his life.
Leading human rights activists and lawyers condemned the killing.
“Seeing this, anyone can guess how brutalised our society has become,” Asma Jahangir, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and a long-time rights champion, told AFP.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik ordered the arrest of the soldiers involved and a departmental inquiry.
“This act is extremely unlawful, even if the youth was a robber it did not merit to kill him like this,” Malik told TV channels.
“The suspects in the incident have been arrested. I have ordered for a thorough inquiry.”
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah ordered an inquiry and suspended a senior police official for charging the youth with robbery after his death.
Rangers are low-life cowards.
One can only hope that it is not re-run of 1970 (erstwhile) East Pakistan.
Might is right…..Very sad but true.
It was Nawaz Sharif as prime minister, who asked the rangers start operating in they city. But the rangers instead of providing peace and security – got into the lucrative water supply racket of Karachi and a range of other rackets. The presence of rangers has failed to end the 'target' killings. The violence and Karachi's descent in total anarchy in shops and cars are torched. The job of the rangers is not policing. The police should be stronger and more capable. When there are overlapping responsibilities no one takes responsibility. The rangers should leave Karachi, because they have proven to completely worthless. Killing a child was the last resort.
“Sarfaraz was seen begging the Ranger for his life, but the official – on a power trip similar to the one displayed by FC personnel in Kharotabad a few weeks ago, in which 5 unarmed Russian nationals were killed on “suspicion” of being suicide bombers – shot him heartlessly.”
Lanat hai aisi Ranger per jo 18 ghente opration k baad 6 militants ko nahi zinda pakar sake 4 ko maar diya or 2 bhaag gaye….aaam awam ka ye haal karte hain ye begairat log…
Napak Armi ki kuch nakamian
1971 ma yahi beast pan ki wajha thi
fata n baluchistan n kpk ma yahi zulm ho raha hai
sahafiyun ko katal kya ja raha hai
jo sach boly wo khatam
american k chhopy le le kr harami ban gai hain
raymond davis k waqt ye harami q ban jaty hn un ko ghar tak chhor kar aaty hn
pns n gh ki hifazat k waqt in ko neeend q a jati h
gen kiyani harami ko extnsion q di
awam ka 80 percent budget kha kr ek PNS ki hifazat nahe kr sakty gashti k bachy
shameless. dont go theire dangerous country
they should take that motherfucker to the mother of the dead guy and tell her to shoot him first and then burn his body…
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