Will set an example if CTD statement proved wrong: Fawad Ch
He asserted that Punjab government will elucidate the matter as soon as details surfaces.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Information minister Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday vowed to set an example if the statements of Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) pertaining to Sahiwal encounter are proved wrong after interrogation.
In the latest development, all the officials of CTD involved in the incident have been arrested on the orders of Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar.
Earlier the minister contacted CTD over the matter and maintained that the alleged terrorists apparently used the family as human shield.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan has also summoned a report over the incident. I contacted CTD and received reply from them. According to initial reports, the suspects are major terrorists,” said Fawad.
He asserted that Punjab government will elucidate the matter as soon as details surfaces.
Four persons including two women were shot dead by the CTD officers in a purportedly high-speed pursuit in Qadirabad area of Sahiwal city.
CTD claimed that the ‘terrorists’ were killed in an intelligence based operation (IBO). Three other terrorists including Shahid Jabar and Abdul Rahman managed to flee during the chase near the toll plaza of Sahiwal.
CTD claimed of confiscating explosives and weapons from the car adding that officers were investigating into the matter as part of the operation in Faisalabad on January 16.
Contrarily, an eye witness has told the media that the deceased were neither equipped with any weapon nor resisted officers whereas three children were also present in the car.
The eyewitnesses further said that the children while speaking to them at a nearby petrol station claimed that the “police has killed their parents”. “Following the firing incident, the police left the children at the petrol station where they spoke to us. A few minutes later, however, CTD officials returned and took the children with them to an undisclosed location,” the eyewitnesses added.
