By Ajmal Khan Yousafzai
ISLAMABAD: Newly appointed IG Islamabad Qazi Jamilur Rehman here on Sunday called on Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad in the federal capital.
Matters of mutual interest, law and order situation in the federal capital, professional and other issues were discussed in the meeting.
Talking about the Osama Satti murder case, the interior minister stressed the need for making the Islamabad police more professional. He maintained that such incidents will not be tolerated in future at any cost.
Sheikh Rasheed also congratulated Qazi Jamilur Rehman on assuming the office of IG Islamabad.
Earlier on January 6, the federal government had appointed Qazi Jamilur Rehman, a 22-grade officer of Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), as the new Inspector General of Islamabad police.
“Qazi Jami-ur-Rehman, a BS-20 Officer of Police Service of Pakistan, presently serving under Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is transferred and posted as Inspector General, Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police, under Interior Division, in his own pay and scale, with immediate effect and until further orders,” a notification issued to this effect had read.
Demands were made for changing the IG in the wake of a 22-year-old Osama Satti’s murder at the hands of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) men in an alleged staged shootout in Islamabad.
Five police officials, who were involved in the killing of the young man named Osama Nadeem in Islamabad, were fired on Friday on the charges of misconduct, read the notification.
The accused officials include Sub-Inspector Iftikhar, Constable Mustafa, Shakeel, Mudassar, and Saeed.
The youth was going back home when he was dead shot on Islamabad’s Srinagar Highway last week reportedly after he ignored police warnings to stop.
According to the initial statement by the police, the incident was cited as a robbery case.
Later, five policemen were arrested and a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against them under anti-terrorism and murder provisions.
On the other hand, the young man’s father, in a complaint to the police, had stated his son was returning home after dropping off a friend at 2am.
“My son was shot multiple times. They (anti-terror squad) openly committed terrorism by aiming at the windscreen instead of the tires,” he had said.
The father had demanded that the personnel involved be charged with terrorism.
He had said that his son had informed him about a past occasion when he had had a heated exchange with some police personnel who according to Usama had “threatened him of dire consequences”.
