Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that he will pursue the Naqeebullah case to get justice for the Waziristan man who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in Karachi.

“Not only Naqeebullah but thousands of other innocent people have been killed the way the former was killed in a staged encounter, he told protesters who have been demonstrating for the last six days in the federal capital to get justice for Naqeebullah.

“I think FATA people now should be given their due rights. We will safeguard their interests and we will stand by them in all odds,” the JUI-F chief said.

The Waziristan man was killed in a fake encounter in Karachi on January 13 by a police team led by now suspended SSP Rao Anwar who is still at large despite Supreme Court directives to arrest him and produce him before the court of law.

Fazl said he would leave no stone unturned to get due rights for tribal masses.

He reassured the protesters of throwing his weight behind their legitimate demands, including the arrest of Rao Anwar and get FATA from improvised explosive devices cleared.

Earlier, Asfand Yar Wali Khan, chief of Awami National Party (ANP), along with his party leaders, including Mian Iftikhar Hussai and Bushra Gohar visited the ‘Naqeeb Shaheed’ camp to express solidarity with the demonstrators.

Addressing the gathering, Khan said that tribal people were the frontline force to defend the motherland but killing displaced persons the way Naqeebullah had been killed would lead to deprivations among them.

He also extend his party’s all-out support to get the absconder police officer Rao Anwar arrested, threatening that protest demonstrations would be held in all cities to ensure justice for the victim’s family.

The strength of the demonstrators camped in Islamabad is gaining momentum by each passing day, with leaders and heads of different political parties delivering speeches to express solidarity with the protesters.

On Sunday, PTI Chairman Imran Khan had assured the protesters that his party would extend full cooperation to the tribal people to build maximum pressure for the arrest of absconder Rao Anwar.

Published in Daily Times, February  6^th 2018.