Parveen Rehman was murdered in Karachi on March 13, 2013. PHOTO: NPR
Rahman, the director of the Orangi Pilot Project, was gunned down by unidentified armed motorcyclists in a drive-by shooting near Banaras Flyover on March 13, 2013. The very next day, the police claimed to have killed the alleged mastermind of the assassination plot, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan operative identified as Qari Bilal, in an encounter. Another suspect, Bilal alias Tension, was also taken into custody but was released by the court last year for want of evidence against him.
Two years after the incident, the police now claimed to have arrested the prime suspect in Rahman's murderer, Ahmed Khan alias Pappu Kashmiri, from Mansehra in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
According to the prosecution, Khan was apprehended on March 19 in a joint operation conducted by the Karachi and Mansehra police. The investigation officer (IO) sought his custody, contending that the suspect had confessed his involvement in the murder but further investigation was necessary.
ATC-II link-judge Anandram Sairani remanded the suspect to police custody for 14 days, ordering the IO to submit a progress report on the next hearing, scheduled for April 6.
Three suspects, namely Rahim Surti, Ayaz Surti and Amjad Afridi, have been named as absconders in the case.
The FIR of the murder has been registered at the Pirabad police station under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code, read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 25th, 2015.
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