Girl accompanying Intizar breaks silence, says police opened fire after allowing them to leave

KARACHI: Latest development in the shooting case of 19-year-old Intizar Ahmed who was allegedly shot dead by Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) officials, has taken place after the girl who was accompanying Ahmed gave a formal statement to investigators.

Official sources report that the girl confessed to being in the car with the deceased the night of the shooting. “Right before the firing, Intizar and I stopped at a shop nearby and bought two burgers from there. A man walked to Intizar shortly after,” she told police officials.

“A little while later, a car came and stopped right in front of our car,” she continued. “They stopped our car and started looking inside it. The man searching the car signalled to someone, and another car and motorbike came in front of us.”

“Therefore, when Intizar and I tried to leave and he drove the car, they opened fire on us,” she said. “This is when Intizar was hit.”

The girl added that this incident terrified her, and she fled the scene.

Earlier, six officials of the ACLC were arrested while three others were suspended in an alleged shooting that claimed the life of 19-year-old Intizar Ahmed.

The police had at first maintained that the youth was killed in firing by unknown assailants on motorcycles. Later it was disclosed that the law enforcers had opened fire at his car after he failed to stop at a check-post.

The victim’s parents, speaking in a press conference in the aftermath of the shooting, had informed the media that their son, an only child, was 19 years old and studying at a university in Malaysia after completing his O and A levels from City School, Darakshan. Intezar had come to Pakistan for his winter break on November 29, they informed further.