ISLAMABAD: A young man was killed in Islamabad after an anti-terror squad allegedly opened fire on a vehicle Friday night.
According to police, 21-year-old Usama Nadeem was shot on Islamabad’s Srinagar Highway reportedly after he ignored police warnings to stop.
An Islamabad Police spokesperson said the police were acting on a tip-off about a robbery attempt in Shams Colony. When the anti-terror squad reached the locality, they spotted a “suspicious vehicle” with tinted windows and asked it to pull over. When the driver failed to comply, the police chased the vehicle and shot at its tires.
“Unfortunately, two bullets hit the driver,” the spokesperson added.
The man’s body was then taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences for a post-mortem. Waqas Khawaja, a PIMS spokesperson, said the autopsy revealed the young man was shot six times — in the chest, back, and head.
Khawaja added that the shots were fired from in front of the man.
On the other hand, the young man’s father, in a complaint to the police, stated his son was returning home after dropping off a friend at 2am.
“My son was shot multiple times. They [anti-terror squad] openly committed terrorism by aiming at the windscreen instead of the tires.”
The father demanded that the personnel involved be charged with terrorism.
He said that his son had informed him about a past occasion when he had had a heated exchange with some police personnel who according to Usama had “threatened him of dire consequences”.
The night of the incident, the police allegedly followed his car and then shot him, he said.
He also requested Prime Minister Imran Khan and Minister for Interior Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed to take notice of the incident and provide him justice.