Sahiwal tragedy: Khalil's brother refutes claims of receiving threatening call
Jalil told that the relevant SHO of their area had informed them of a meeting with President.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Brother of Sahiwal tragedy victim Khalil on Monday refuted claims of receiving a threatening call.
Speaking in programme ‘Dunya Kamran Khan Key Saath’, Jalil told that he has dismissed lawyer Shehbaz Bukhari from the case following th false claims.
While telling about his Islamabad visit, he revealed that the relevant SHO of their area had informed them of a meeting with President Arif Alvi.
“He departed with us at 6am for Islamabad. Later after arriving in the capital, we remain seated a petrol pump. We came to know through media that the president is not in Islamabad,” he said.
Jalil maintained that police brought them back home at 1:30am. “Police gave food to us. Zeehsan’s brother mad mother was also with me. In Islamabad, we sat outside President House,” he told.
Lawyer Shehbaz Bukhari had earlier presented an audio recording of alleged threat call and demanded security from the government for his clients.
The lawyer said that Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has been informed about the call. "JIT has assured that the official weapons used in the incident will be recovered. Those CTD officials who are trying to save their colleagues should also be questioned," he added.
On January 19, CTD officials killed four people, including a couple and their teenage daughter in an alleged “encounter” in Sahiwal, triggering a national outcry that prompted the government to take the security officials into custody and order an investigation into the incident.
The officials 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.
They also 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.
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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 have 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.
