Pakistan

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 | 13 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 | 13 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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Faisal | 13 years ago | Reply with Islam maligned so much by Jihadis what would be your first instinct if you are standing on a check post and some foreigners rush towards you shouting Allaho Akbar? sincere answers please

Sajjad | 13 years ago | Reply we must see that the murdered were innocent human beings and not hindus, jews,muslims or non-muslims,. chechens or pakistanis.the judicial inquiry will decide whether they are innocent or not.as shown on tv and the manner of their killing and dragging of the dead bodies is disgusting.if the victims are found to be innocent then those fc and police personnel involved must be punished otherwise citizens like me will have no respect for our security forces.human rights must be respected by all and especially by government agencies.

Syed Shoaib Ahsan | 13 years ago | Reply @ Zeeshan Completely agree with you. Plus, I don't understand the habit of drawing in "muslims" "islams" in EVERY CONVERSATION!?!?!?!

Zeeshan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply The points raised by people on why we don't raise as much ire when non-Muslims are killed is all beside the point. One wrong does not make a right. There have been close to 400 total targetted killings by the state police in various parts of Balouchistan and Pakistan, most of which are the result of fueds and settling old scores. In a society like Pakistan, encounter killings should be prosecuted and those responsible held accountable. The question should not be why we are not objecting as severely to the killing of non-Muslims, but rather, why such killings are happening at all!

mahira shahid | 13 years ago | Reply yes,more witnesses come forward as the victims were muslims,but the question arises would 6 more witnesses have come forward to testify if the victims had been christians or ahmadis?

muhammad saif khalid | 13 years ago | Reply why are we so sympathetic to the chechens? if instead of the chechens the victims would have been jews or hindus our people would have happily celebrated & applauded the security forces for eliminating kaafirs. Why these double standards of ours,violation by american planes is met with dharnas,protests & hue & cry by the media but no one raises a voices at the violent violation of our sovereignty by thousands of arabs,chechens,uzbeks,iranians.Why is our ghairat only violated when the violator is non-muslim? The mazhabi parties shuould also protest the invasion of our country by the arabs,chechens,afghans & uzbeks.They should hold dharnas against these people also.

Chilli | 13 years ago | Reply Hang the culprits and make them example...

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