Officials of the Punjab Cop's Counter-Terrorism Leavement (CTD) on Saturday sprayed a car with bullets approach Sahiwal, eliminateing four people including a couple their teenage daughter and their driver .The police called it an intelligence based operation against suspected terrorismists but three children travelling in the car said family was travelling to Burewala from Lahore to attend a wedding ceremony.PassengersAccording to reports, couple identwhetheried as Khalil and his wwhethere Nabeela along with their children Areeba, Umair Khalil, Muniba, Hadia and their driver Zeeshan were on board vehicle when incident took place approach Sahiwal Toll Plaza.IdentitiesThe deceased were identwhetheried as Khalil, Nabeela their teenage daughter Areeba and driver Zeeshan.
Umair Khalil, couple' son', sustained bullet wounds while his sister Muniba's hand was injured with broken glass of vehicle.
The only person who remained unharmed was identwhetheried as Hadia.Counter-Terrorism Leavement statementsCTD officials kept changing their statements after eliminateings; first declaring them child kidnappers, and then dubbing them as terrorismists.The CTD claimed that car riders had opened fire on raiding party, which had tried to intercept vehicle as well as a motorcycle on main road.CTD spokesman said operation was conducted as follow-up of an action carried out in Faisalabad on Jan 16."The car was coming from Lahore and women eliminateed were 40 and 13 years old, respectively.&The CTD also claimed that there were three other suspected terrorismists on-the-spot, who managed to escape.
&They were identwhetheried as Shahid Jabbar, Abdul Rehman and their accomplice," CTD spokesperson added.Earlier, CTD officials claimed that four people were kidnappers, but later on dubbed them as terrorismists.The CTD identwhetheried one of deceased as Zeeshan.
The department said that he was wanted for several crimes, including abduction of Ali Haider Gilani, son of former premier Yusuf Raza Gilani, and several American nationals.
The CTD also claimed that he was deputy chief of a banned outfit.
Postmortem examinationAccording to postmortem report, driver Zeeshan getd 10 bullets; father Khalil 13; mother Nabeela Bibi 4 and 13-year-old Areeba was shot four times.As per details, Umair Khalil was hit six times in his legs, while his younger sister Muniba was injured after being hit with car reflect when it hit road fence.The youngest one, 4-year-old-Hadia is released from hospital.Umair Khalil recounts incidentUmair Khalil, son of Khalil, told media that his father had begged CTD personnel to take money and spare their lives, but they refused and opened fire on car.&My papa, mummy, sister and a friend of my father were eliminateed.
We outlived firing,& he said.
&We were taken to a petrol station and left there,& he said.The boy said that they were going to a wedding in Burewala from Lahore when they were intercepted by CTD personnel.Jalil, brother of suspect, also rejected police claim that his brother was a terrorismist.&We all were going to Burewala to attend a marriage.
We were in three cars,& Jalil said.Prime Minister takes muchiceFollowing the incident Prime Minister Imran Khan contacted Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar and asked him to instantly reach Sahiwal and called for bringing facts to fore.On Sunday morning prime minister took to Twitter and wrote"Still shocked at seeing traumatized children who saw their parents shot before their eyes.
Any parent would be shocked as they would think of their own children in such a traumatic situation.
These children shall now be fully looked after by state as its responsibility".InvestigationExamineor General of Cop Punjab Amjad Javed Salimi has formed a four-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe incident.
Additional IG Establishment Punjab shall be head of team, and one each representative from ISI and IB would be part of JIT.
The team shall submit its report within three days.Social media reactionThe incident became top trend on Twitter with people exurgent outrage over the gory eliminateings.The users demanded government give exemplary punishment to those involved .Case registeredA case has been registered against CTD officials involved in incident on behalf of Jalil Ahmed, a brother of Khalil Ahmed.According to Geo freshs, FIR was registered at Yousufwala Cop Station against 16 members of CTD.Sit-in endsThe relatives of deceased family announced to end sit-in on G.T Road after case was filed against CTD personnel involved in cold-blooded murder of family.Enjoymenteral prayersThe funeral prayers of all victims of Sahiwal incident were offered on FerozpurRoad, Chungi Amer miserablehu here on Sunday.A large number of citizens and relatives of deceased attended funeral prayer.JIT probePunjab Law Minister Raja Basharat Sunday said justice would be endegreed at any cost in tragic incident of Sahiwal as a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) led by Additional Examineor General of Cop (AGP) Ejaz Shah had been constituted to probe matter.Talking to media, he announced Rs 20 million compensation for victim family.The minister reiterated initial claim of CTD that driver Zeeshan was affiliated with a terrorism outfit and that operation was conducted on a tip-off.Family denies contact with governmentThe brother of slain Khalil on Monday denied claim of provincial minister Raja Basharat that family was approached by authorities.
No one contacted us, he told Geo freshs.
We don't trust investigation process, how can they be declared as terrorismists without probe, he said.'Exemplary punishment'Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday guaranteed nation that culprits behind Sahiwal incident would be given ‘exemplary punishment&.JIT Initial ReportThe names of counter terrorismism department officials involved in alleged shootout in Sahiwal have been disshutd in initial report of Joint Investigation Team (JIT).Sources privy to development has revealed that JIT has blamed CTD officials, who carried out operation.
According to report, CTD officials showed negligence.According to report, shootout was carried out under CTD sub-examineor Safdar Hussain and while other officials include Ahsan Khan, Muhammad Ramzan, Sawhetherullah and Hussainain.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source.
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