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CTD officials deny firing gunshots at Sahiwal family

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SAHIWAL: Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officials arrested in the Sahiwal shootout case have denied that they fired shots at Khalil and members of his family who were travelling in a car driven by a terror suspect, ARY News reported.

The CTD officials in their statement to the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the incident revealed that neither did they open fire at the Sahiwal family nor had anyone given them directives to do so.

To a question about how the car passengers got killed, the personnel said they were shot dead by their associates who were travelling on a motorcycle. The CTD officials, however, said they had opened fire at terrorists in retaliation.

Khalil, a resident of Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat, along with his wife Nabeela and teenage daughter Areeba were killed in a shady encounter involving the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police on a highway in the Qadirabad area of Sahiwal district last week.

Earlier today, Sahiwal vicitm’s brother, Jalil, refused to appear before the JIT for the identification parade of CTD officials.

The identification parade was put off for the third time today after the main complainant in the case didn’t turn up. The JIT will now inform the relevant judicial magistrate in this regard.

On Jan 30, Jalil had appeared before the JIT but refused to be part of the identification parade.

Accusing the JIT of destroying evidence in the case, Jalil had said, “How can the identification parade could be conducted until all the accused are not arrested.”

He had also said the police and JIT knew who the killers of the Sahiwal victims were. “The JIT is troubling eyewitnesses and destroying evidences in the case.”

Jalil had demanded to transfer the case to Lahore. “Why should we come to Sahiwal for the identification of the accused? We have demanded the constitution of a judicial commission.”

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