Watery grave: Civilian employee of Pakistan Navy found dead

KARACHI:

The body of a 46-year-old civilian employee of the Pakistan Navy, Khan Mohammad, was fished out of the sea near Qasim Shah Road, which is within the limits of the Jackson police station, on Monday.

It was sent to Civil hospital for an autopsy. According to people who had seen his body at the hospital, Mohammad had been shot in the face and there were torture marks on his body. The police said that they found the body after people in the area saw it floating in the water.

SHO Abdullah Ghomro said that the victim had gone missing since he left his house in Macchar Colony in Keamari to get his younger brother’s cell phone repaired on Sunday.

Khan Mohammad hailed from Swabi and was the father of seven children. The police suspect that he was killed over a personal enmity, but this has to be buttressed by further investigation. On behalf of the victim’s brother, Lal Mohammad, the police have registered an FIR against some suspects.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 29^th, 2011.