ISLAMABAD: The protest, which demandS justice in the Naqeebullah killing case and began on Thursday in the form of a rally from Dera Ismail Khan and culminated into a sit-in outside National Press Club Islamabad, has entered its second day on Friday.
The protesters demand the arrest of suspended Malir SSP Rao Anwar and have stated their resolve that the sit-in will continue till Anwar and his accomplices are arrested.
Anwar is wanted to the authorities for the extrajudicial killing of Mehsud, a 27-year-old native of Waziristan who was killed along with three others in a fake encounter in Karachi on January 13.
The protesters include residents of DI Khan, FATA and other areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as Islamabad.
Meanwhile, according to a Facebook page, Azad Pakhtoon Qabayel, a jirga is underway to decide the next course of action for the protesters.
Owing to the protest, the road from Melody Food Park to NPC and another leading to Sector F-6 from NPC has been closed for traffic.
Hearing the suo motu case on the killing on Thursday, the Supreme Court had directed the country’s intelligence agencies to assist the Sindh Police in nabbing Anwar.
It also gave the Sindh police chief ten additional days to trace Anwar.
