“They have confessed to killing Babar on January 13,” said police chief Saud Mirza at a press conference on Thursday. The men were identified as Faisal Mehmood, Muhammed Ali Rizvi, Shahrukh, Naveed and Muhammed Shakeel. They were arrested from Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
At least 17 to 18 men were involved in the journalist’s murder, and Faisal Mota was the mastermind, while three other accused men are still missing. The murder was planned in KBR Colony at Mota’s house for January 12. After they failed to locate him, they followed him from his office and intercepted him near a school in Liaquatabad No. 1 on January 13.
A car (registration no. AM-22) was used. “Babar was killed for his daring reporting about target killers, land grabbers and drug peddlers,” said the CCPO. The men are hardened criminals and involved in other target killings, but we are not sure of their political affiliations, added Mirza. APP/PPI
Published in The Express Tribune, April 8th, 2011.
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