KARACHI: The anti-terrorism court has sent former DSP Qamar Ahmed Sheikh on remand, who is said to be a close aide to absconding SSP Rao Anwar. Qamar Ahmed Sheikh was brought in the court of the administrative judge on anti-terrorism in Sindh High Court on Friday, but not like an under trial accused is as he sat on the passenger seat of the police mobile that drove him to the court. He was deployed in Malir City, an area near the site where Waziristan youth Naqeebullah Mehsud was killed. The former DSP was allowed to go for the first time when he was called to record his statement on the murder case Naqeebullah Mehsud. However, after a video surfaced of him being present with Rao Anwar during the encounter, Qamar Ahmed was called again to record his statement but as arrested this time. Besides Qamar Ahmed, nine others have been arrested in Mehsud’s murder case, including Sub-Inspector Muhammad Yasin, Assistant Sub-Inspectors Supurd Hussain and Allahyar, head constables Khizar Hayat and Muhammad Iqbal and constables Arshad Ali, Shafiq Ahmed, Abdul Ali and Ghulam Nazak. However, others have been names absconders in the case, including Rao Anwar, Shah Latif Town SHO Amanullah Marwat, SHO of the SITE Superhighway police station Annar Khan, Muhammad Shoaib alias Shoaib Shooter and 10 other policemen. Mehsud was among three others who were accused of being terrorists and killed by Rao Anwar in Karachi on January 13 in what was later determined to be a fake encounter. A public outcry broke over the extrajudicial murder of the 27-year-old native of Waziristan on social media. Published in Daily Times, March 3rd 2018.