From Zeeshan Mirza
KARACHI: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested the assassin of a private news channel’s reporter Wali Khan Baber, media reported.
Addressing a process conference, Karachi police chief Nasir Shah claimed to have arrested the suspect who had opened fire on Geo News reporter Wali Khan Baber on 13th of January 2011 in Liaquatabad.
He said that the suspect Zeeshan alias Shani had killed Wali Khan Baber, adding that the suspect was arrested in a joint operation by the police and a federal investigation agency.
During initial investigations, the suspect had also confessed to four other murders. He maintained that eight people were nominated in the murder case, adding that one of them had been killed during a police encounter. Four suspects nominated in the case had been detained in 2015.
It is pertinent to mention here that an anti-terrorism court in Kandhkot had awarded death penalties for Kamran and Faisal Mehmood, alias Faisal Mota, in March 2014 in absentia and declared them as absconders in the murder case.
Sources said that Wali Khan Baber wanted to interview Faiza Gabol the ex-wife of MQM Chief Altaf Hussain.
The police Monday arrested murderer of journalist Wali Khan Babar, killed in Karachi’s Liaquatabad area on January 13, 2011, while returning home from the office.
Addressing a press conference, Karachi police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon said that the killer Kamran alias Zeeshan Shani was arrested during a joint operation.
He said that till 2015, four accused received life imprisonment in the case and another suspect Faisal Mota was arrested.
“Kamran was still at large and kept changing his hideouts and finally this morning, on the intelligence-based tipoff by a federal agency, our special investigation unit apprehended him with weapons,” said the police chief.
