LAHORE: The relatives of Khalil Ahmad who along with his wife and daughter was shot dead in Sahiwal allegedly by the officials of the Counter Terrorism Department, Punjab, on Saturday staged a sit-in at Charing Cross on The Mall on the occasion of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to the city.

Brothers of Khalil, his minor children, relatives and neighbours reached The Mall with placards inscribed with slogans against the federal and Punjab authorities. They blocked the road by staging a sit-in putting up their three main demands.

They shouted slogans against the authorities concerned for not addressing their demands despite a lapse of more than three months.

Speaking to the media on the occasion, Ijaz Ahmad said his brother was mercilessly killed along with his wife and minor daughter by the CTD in operation which was launched on the basis of false reporting. He said senior CTD officers instead of feeling remorse came up with contradictory versions on the day of the incident. Worse still, he said, the CTD lodged a case against Khalil and his family including his children.

He said the matter was taken up by him and his relatives with the prime minister and the chief minister many times but the case had not been solved despite promises. The other demands including the constitution of the judicial commission and transfer of the main case from Sahiwal to Lahore were also yet to be addressed.

He said the prime minister had promised in a meeting with him recently that he would fulfill the demands but no one from the PM House contacted him prompting them to take to the streets.

Published in Dawn, May 5th, 2019