Kharotabad incident: 12 more come forward as witnesses

Total of 8 people have registered themselves as witnesses with the tribunal. Formal investigations to begin on Monday.


Shezad Baloch May 26, 2011

QUETTA: In recent developments on Thursday in the Kharotabad incident inquiry, 12 more people had come forth and registered themselves as witnesses.

Earlier in the week, 14 people had registered their names as witnesses with the tribunal probing the Kharotabad shooting incident, on Monday.

Two people including Jamaat-i-Islami Balochistan Vice-President Amanullah Shahdezai and Jamal Tarkai, a photo journalist, had registered their names as private witnesses.

A tribunal comprising Justice Mohammad Hashim Kakar of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) has been formed to investigate the incident following objections raised by local people that all five foreign nationals were killed in a fake encounter.

Formal investigations will begin on Monday.

Five Chechens were gunned down on May 17, by personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) and police near an FC picket on International Highway in the Kharotabad area, a suburb of Quetta, alleging three of those Chechen women and two men were wearing suicide jackets and possessed explosives.

COMMENTS (9)

Adnan | 12 years ago | Reply @muhammad saif khalid: this is ridiculous indeed. Why do you think that people should not raise the voice against the brutal murders of these people. No matter who they are...their kiilling in broad day light was a massacre and slap on humanity. Common..you have no rights to object.
umer | 12 years ago | Reply could not the sec forces fire on the lower limb (legs etc) if at all they were trying to rush towards them... shooting on them like hell should have been the last option for forces... where is the inquiry? we all gona forget this incident within a week... its insane
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