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Dawn.com
islamabad
The death of Naqeebullah Mehsud was an extrajudicial killing, the Additional Inspector General of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), Dr Sanaullah Abbasi, on Tuesday told the victim's grieving friends, family and tribesmen gathered on the outskirts of Karachi.
Abbasi, who headed a three-member team investigating Naqeebullah's killing in an 'exchange of fire', assured his kin that Naqeebullah had never been involved in terrorism-related activities as alleged earlier, but had been innocent and was in fact killed in a 'fake encounter'.
"This was a fake encounter in which an innocent man was killed,"Abbasi said."Whoever was involved will be brought to justice."
"No one will be allowed to kill extra-judicially,"he added.
Members of a Mehsud jirga were also present in the meeting between the investigation team and the deceased's family.
No first information report has yet been registered, District Inspector General East Sultan Khawaja said. He said that as soon as the police receive a complaint draft from Naqeebullah's family, a case will be registered.
