NAWABSHAH: An additional district and sessions judge on Friday ordered police to register an FIR against Ismail Dahiri, the special assistant to the Sindh chief minister, his brother and colleagues.

The judge passed the order on an application filed by Idrees Channa, brother of Abdul Ghafoor Channa who died in a firing incident in Daulatpur a few days ago.

Idrees alleged in the application that Ismail Dahiri came to his house on Sept 26 in a government vehicle and threatened him to vacate the house or face consequences.
When he and his family refused, Dahiri started firing on the house, he alleged.

He said that he and his family members ran for their lives and climbed to the roof to escape from bullets. They started pelting him with stones after which he was forced to leave, saying he would be back soon, he alleged.

After about half an hour, Ismail returned along with his brothers Asghar and Ali Raza and two police mobiles and resumed firing, seriously injuring his brother Ghafoor Channa and five others, he said.

He said that when one of Ismail’s own colleagues, Mohammed Khan Rahu, tried to stop Ismail and his men from firing, they tuned on him and shot him dead.

When the attackers escaped they took Ghafoor to taluka hospital Moro from where he was referred to PMC hospital but they were stopped en route by police and sub-inspector Bisharat Mallah told them that he could not let them move further because he had orders from the special assistant to CM.

As a result, his brother died of excessive bleeding without getting medical help, he said.

The complainant’s counsel Ali Mohammed Dahiri said that they had filed the application along with an FIR statement because they feared police would not record their statement properly.

He said that the judge had ordered the station house officer of Daulatpur to register FIR against Ismail Dahiri and others on Thursday but the police had not so far lodged the case.

He would file another application in the court on Saturday, he said.

Ismail’s younger brother Asghar Dahiri also died during the clash between the two groups over a piece of land in Nangar Makaan village near Daulatpur.

Ismail’s other brother Ali Raza had rejected reports that they had any involvement in any dispute over plot.
District Police Officer Rukhsar Ahmed Khuhawar was not available for comments and no FIR was lodged at the Daulatpur police station till the filing of this report.

Police later registered an FIR against PML-Q leaders, former MPA Dr Bahadur Dahiri, Mithal Dahiri, Ghafoor Channa and 12 others.