Five members of police squad fired over Islamabad youth's murder

• According to the notification, the policemen were fired for misconduct
  
• The sacked officials include a sub-inspector and four constables
  
• The 22-year-old was shot dead on Islamabad’s Srinagar Highway last week reportedly after he ignored police warnings to stop
  

Five officials of the capital's Counter-Terrorism Force, involved in the killing of a young man named Usama Nadeem Satti in Islamabad, were fired on Friday.

According to the notification, the policemen were fired for misconduct.

The sacked officials include Sub-Inspector Iftikhar, Constable Mustafa,  Shakeel, Mudassar, and Saeed.

The 22-year-old was dead shot on Islamabad’s Srinagar Highway last week reportedly after he ignored police warnings to stop.

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Initially, the police described the incident as a robbery case. Later, five policemen were arrested and a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against them under anti-terrorism and murder provisions.

An Islamabad Police spokesperson had 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.

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“Unfortunately, two bullets hit the driver,” the spokesperson had added.

The man's body was then taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences for a post-mortem. Waqas Khawaja, a PIMS spokesperson, had said the autopsy revealed the young man was shot six times — in the chest, back, and head.

Khawaja had added that the shots were fired from in front of the man.