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Article: AHRC demands police officers involved in fake encounters to be charged for murder.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
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- January 9, 2009
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Karachi, January 09 (PPI): The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has urged the government to register murder cases against the police officers involved in the incidents of killing four traders of Chaman at Khalid Bin Walled Road Karachi, and another person in alleged encounters. The government must also ensure that an impartial and open investigation is conducted in both cases. The witnesses willing to depose before such an investigating agency must be assured protection from possible threats from the accused police officers, AHRC said in a statement on Friday. The enquiry into the murder of four traders has revealed criminal negligence on the part of ...