Former Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rao Anwar on Thursday said that he will be proven innocent in the Naqeebullah Mehsud murder case. Anwar and 11 of his subordinates were accused of killing Naqeebullah, a shopkeeper and an aspiring model, and three others during a fake encounter in Karachi’s Malir area earlier in the year. The former Malir SSP was speaking to journalists outside the anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi, where he appeared for a hearing of the case. Anwar claimed that the record proved that he neither caught Naqeebullah nor killed him. The accused said evidence against him was not available. “I have been nominated in the wrong case,” said Rao Anwar, adding that the case against him was taken up due to professional jealousy. Anwar added that his phone number mentioned in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report was incorrect. He said that the records of the phone number mentioned in the report showed that it was used in Karachi on March 21. Anwar claimed that he was in Islamabad for a Supreme Court (SC) hearing on the said date. Meanwhile, the lawyers representing Naqeebullah’s father Khan Muhammad failed to appear for Thursday’s hearing and the court gave them the final chance to present their arguments. The hearing was then adjourned till July 4. Published in Daily Times, June 15th 2018.