President Alvi requests to meet family of Zeeshan from Sahiwal encounter

LAHORE/SAHIWAL: President Dr Arif Alvi has requested the family of Zeeshan, the driver killed in the tragic Sahiwal encounter, to travel to Islamabad to meet him.

Zeeshan's family was informed of Alvi's request by the police, his brother Ehtisham said, adding that he and his mother would be travelling to the capital city.

Police will arrange for their transport, he added.

Further, Senate Chairperson Mir Sadiq Sanjrani is also expected to meet Ehtisham and his mother.

On the other hand, a joint investigation team (JIT) — pertaining to the case and led by Syed Ijaz Hussain Shah, additional inspector-general (AIG) of the Punjab Police — is probing it from various angles and has managed to obtain from the Excise & Taxation Punjab the record of the car used in the Sahiwal encounter.

According to the records obtained by the JIT, the car — with a registration number plate LEA-6683 — was first registered to Samina Muqaddar, a resident of Lahore, in March 2012 and transferred to Shaukat Ali Sajid of Okara in July 2012 and, in July 2017, to Lahore's Azeem Liaquat.

After that, the ownership of the vehicle was not transferred to any other identity. However, intelligence sources claim that terrorist Adeel Hafeez bought the car from a person named Saqib Majeed and that there was a deal between Hafeez and Majeed in May 2018.