KARACHI: The family of a 30-year-old master of business administration graduate killed during a family dispute over property has demanded that the name of the alleged killer be placed on the Exit Control List. Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Saturday, Mohammed Jibran Jogezai’s mother, Nargis Tariq Jogezai, narrated how her son was murdered on May 7.

Accompanied by her sister, Ms Jogezai said that her husband, Mohammed Tariq Jogezai, had taken Jibran to their ancestral property in Qilla Saifullah, Balochistan, around 8.30 in the morning on the day.

“At around 2.30pm, I received a phone call that Jibran’s paternal cousin, Ajmal Khan Jogezai, showed up at the site and picked a fight with my husband.”

The bone of contention between Ajmal Khan and her family, Ms Tariq Jogezai claimed, was the division of their ancestral property, which the former refused to accept.

Surviving alleged murder attempts twice, the family was not prepared for what happened on May 7.

“This time around, after getting into a verbal fight with my husband, he shot twice at my husband’s left leg and as Jibran went ahead to hold him, Ajmal shot three bullets in his stomach. Jibran died on his way to the hospital,” she said. The father, she added, was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Karachi.

An FIR (17/2017) is registered at the Levies Thana Headquarters in Tarwala, District Qilla Saifullah under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 324 (attempted murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

A copy of a letter from the deputy commissioner’s office requesting authorities concerned to put Ajmal Khan’s name on the ECL was also attached with a copy of the FIR presented before the media.

The alleged killer, according to Tariq Jogezai, is in hiding since the incident and is trying to get out of the country.

“The reason I travelled all the way from Quetta to Karachi is that my voice has no value over there. Some influential people within the Jogezai tribe are trying their best to protect Ajmal Khan. It is my request to the Sindh government to put Ajmal Khan Jogezai’s name on the ECL and subsequently punish him so that what happened to me doesn’t happen to any more mothers,” she added.

Jibran was an MBA graduate from Szabist, Karachi, and did his MSc from Bristol University, London, his mother informed the journalists.

The press conference also included a teacher and many of Jibran’s classmates. Speaking about Jibran, one of his teachers, Fouzia Khan, said that “I knew Jibran as a soft-spoken, caring and an intelligent student. I still can’t believe he was murdered. I think we need to speak up about this or else this menace would reach our homes.”

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2017