PESHAWAR: North and South Waziristan Students Society held a protest with students wearing black bands and clothes smeared with blood at the University of Peshawar on Friday to condemn the killing of a youth from South Waziristan in an allegedly fake police encounter in Karachi.

“We will continue our protest on social media. We want the government to investigate the custodial killing of Naqeeb Mehsud at the hands of Karachi police. We want to know what was his sin and why he was denied a fair trial and killed brutally,” said a student leading the protest rally at Puta Chowk which was attended by students of other departments too.

The youth from the South and North Waziristan were wearing black bands, but their white clothes smeared with red colour was another outcry against killing of the people from tribal areas without providing them with the right to a fair trial.

Demand judicial probe into Naqeeb’s killing in Karachi

The youth had earlier held a protest in front of Peshawar Press Club and demanded justice for the family of Naqeeb Mehsud who was killed allegedly in a fake police encounter in Karachi on Jan 13 after he was picked up from his residence in Suhrab Got on Jan 3.

Naqeeb Mehsud hailed from Makeen tehsil of South Waziristan and had shifted to Karachi with his family in 2008. He was working in the city of lights and his photos on social media show him to be youth interested in modeling and wearing modern attire.

However, the youth said that it was disappointing that a youth from Waziristan living a peaceful life in Karachi was killed.

“We want a judicial commission to investigate this extrajudicial killing and the SSP Anwar Rao should be suspended. We are happy that the Supreme Court has taken notice of the incident and want Naqeeb’s killers to be arrested and punished,” the youth demanded.

Meanwhile, students from Edwardes College, Peshawar, and tribal elders also took out protest rallies in Peshawar against the killing of Naqeeb Mehsud. They demanded action against those police officials who were involved in his killing.

Published in Dawn, January 20th, 2018