RAWALPINDI: The United Arab Emirates has asked the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to provide it the case file of former police inspector Abid Boxer, a fugitive who had recently been arrested in Dubai through Interpol.

According to sources, the UAE authorities have asked the FIA to provide the details of criminal cases registered against the former inspector of Punjab police so that he could be handed over to the Pakistani authorities.

Abid, a resident of Chakwal district, joined the police department on a sports quota as an assistant sub-inspector in 1988 and was later promoted to the rank of inspector.

The former inspector was considered an “encounter specialist” and had been on the run for the last several years. He finally was arrested in Dubai through Interpol one week ago. He is on Pakistan police’s most wanted list.

An FIA official said soon after the case file was sent to the UAE authorities, the former police official involved in several criminal cases would be brought back to Pakistan.

Published in Dawn, February 15th, 2018

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