Provincial govt to file FIR against police officers involved in staged encounter if victim’s family steps back, says home minister

KARACHI: An investigation found that Dr Shahnawaz Kunbhar, the blasphemy suspect in Umerkot, was killed in a “fake police encounter”, Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar

Dr. Shahnawaz Kunbhar, a medical doctor accused of sharing blasphemous posts on social media, was shot and killed on September 19 during an alleged gun battle with police in the Mirpurkhas area of Sindh province.

Pakistan’s government says its investigation shows that police had orchestrated the killing of a doctor accused of blasphemy while he was held in custody last week

Pakistan’s government said Thursday that police had orchestrated the killing of a doctor who was in custody after he was accused of blasphemy. Officers then lied about the circumstances of his death,

Activists say two separate cases of police killing men accused of blasphemy have opened a new dimension in a long-running human rights problem for Pakistan.Last week, Shah Nawaz, a 32- year-old doctor in Pakistan's Sindh province,

In southern Pakistan, police officers last week were celebrated with flowers and chants after killing Shah Nawaz, a 36-year-old doctor accused of posting blasphemous content on social media. Authorities claim Nawaz was shot accidentally during his arrest,