September 24, 2008	Wednesday	Ramazan 23, 1429

LARKANA, Sept 23: An SHO registered on Tuesday an FIR on behalf of state against 60 people including the four killed in shootout a day ago between Shahlyani and Jamali tribesmen and police in the Nurpur area of Qambar-Shahdadkot district while the chief of Shahlyani tribe whose son was killed in the incident termed the FIR unilateral.

The SHO of Sanjjar Bhatti police station Noor Mustafa Pathan have nominated Khair Bakhsh Shahlyani, Sardar Salah Shahlyani, his son Akbar Shahlyani (dead), Liaquat Maikan (dead), Nazeer Leghari (dead), Naseer Jamali (dead) and others in the FIR lodged at at Imam Bakhsh Jamali police station. The FIR has 26 identified accused and 34 unidentified.

Sukkur Regional Police Officer (RPO) Muhammed Ramzan Channa visited the shootout scene late on Monday night and was briefed by the DPO of Qambar-Shahdadkot Parvez Umrani about the incident.

A contingent of 100 policemen headed by DSP Sageer Mugheri has been deployed at Nurpur police post with backup support of Rangers personnel to keep an eye on the situation, which has become highly tensed up.

Sardar Salah Shahlyani whose son Akbar was killed in the shootout demanded judicial inquiry into the incident and termed the FIR a unilateral act of police that had not even spared him and his other son Khair Bakhsh. He accused police of taking sides in the case and alleged that it had all been pre-planned.

He appealed to the president and prime minister to take notice of the incident and urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo moto notice of the bloody incident.

Sardar Yar Mohammed Jamali also urged an impartial inquiry into the bloody incident. Had Jamalis planned to target the police post they would not have gone there in a small number, he argued.

He said that Salah Shahlyani had a running feud with Brohis over his son Sikandar’s killing in Quetta and he believed Brohis had targeted Akbar and his body guards.

To a question, he said that the matter would be taken up in Balochistan Assembly and Senate. If he found any Jamali at fault he would himself produce him before the inquiry committee, he said and urged neutrality in conducting probe.

He expressed regret over Sindh chief minister’s statement labelling Akbar Shahlyani and others killed in the incident as terrorists. The chief minister should have investigated the facts prior to making any comments, which were quite uncalled for, he said.

The five policemen including the SHO of Imam Bakhsh Jamali police station, Muhbat Rind, killed in the incident were buried in their ancestral graveyards in Qambar, Shahdakdot and Larkana on Tuesday.

The policemen were: SHO Muhbat Rind, he4ad Constable Manthar Gopang, Constable Mureed Metlo, Constable Sajjad Chandio and Constable Shabir Ahmed Brohi.

Four attackers Akbar Shahlyani and his three body guards Liaquat Maikan, Nazeer Leghari and Naseer Jamali were also killed in firing.

Our Jacobabad correspondent adds: A shutter-down and wheel-jam strike was observed in Garhi Khairo in protest against the killing of Akbar Shahlyani, nephew of PPP MPA Ghulam Mohammad Shahlyani.