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.

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.