Since the murder of nationalist chief of the Balochistan Republican Party (BRP) Brahamdagh Bugti’s sister and niece, also the wife and daughter of Mir Bakhtiar Domki on January 31 in Karachi, the Sindh Police has been trying to prove it the result of an internal family feud and using red herring tactics, which might affect the fair and impartial process of investigations. Recently, the police raided a number of the aggrieved family’s relatives in Karachi, Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas to create a false trail. Bilal Bugti, nephew of slain Nawab Akbar Bugti, filed an application in the Supreme Court (SC) to become a party in the suo motu notice taken by the SC, complaining that the Sindh police has been harassing Akbar Bugti’s relatives and deliberately trying to involve them in the crime committed against their loved ones to change the case’s real nature and save ‘someone else’s’ skin. The SC, in the hearing on Thursday took notice of the sudden change of the investigation officer and directed the Sindh Inspector General (IG) to recall former investigator Shabbir Sheikh, additional IG, who recently left the probe incomplete and went to the US. The track record of our police is rife with the use of such misleading and dilly-dallying tactics in many high profile cases as the revelation of the truth might seriously hit the interests of the influential culprits. In Domki’s wife, Zamur Bibi and her daughter’s killing, the cast of usual suspects has to be led by the security forces, who are trying to decapitate the resistance movement in Balochistan. Being Brahamdagh Bugti’s sister, Zamur Bibi was vulnerable to such brutality. The murders seem to have been committed to strike back at him. He is at present living in Switzerland. The record of the security forces’ activities in Balochistan has been such that first and foremost the finger of suspicion is raised against them. Thinking themselves above the law, they have brazenly been committing atrocities in Balochistan. In the latest hearing of the case, such clues also came into the limelight, which hinted at the police’s helplessness. No doubt it seems very difficult for the apex court as well to pursue the case to the bitter end. Nevertheless, the SC must leave no stone unturned and serve the ends of justice. The recovery of seven missing persons from Adiala Jail out of thin air reiterates the authority the court enjoys. Bringing the real murderers of the Domki women to book is imperative to rein in the brutal activities of the security forces in restive Balochistan. *