ISLAMABAD: Police operations and preparation round the boisterous sit-ins at D-Chowk over the past few days have brought back a way of insecurity and violence to Islamabad voters.
For the past 3 nights, geographic area police in riot gear are checking individuals at the new pickets created by Islamabad police on the roads resulting in Margalla Road and also the Red Zone, and lots of voters feel afraid, notably when mass arrests of the agitators since weekday.
“Are they back to their recent devices,” puzzled subject Asif Khan concerning the safety checks on Sunday as allegations of “police high-handedness” surfaced.
“They (the police) stop boys on motorcycles and in cars and square measure notably rude and hostile because the night deepens,” he said.
“They appear resolute unfold concern and a way of insecurity.”
Shaban Khalid says he fully fledged that concern initial hand once, driving from F-6 to F-7 on Saturday night, he saw fifty to sixty geographic area and Islamabad policemen shoving individuals into jail vans at the picket at Daman-i-Koh Chowk. He force over to the facet to require a photograph of the police manhandling young boys mistreatment his mobile.
“One of them saw the flash burst. Before I knew it, quite a dozen of them encircled my automobile and growled in my face,” a agitated Khalid aforementioned, sitting in his battered automobile together with his life belt barred.
“They vulnerable to throw ME within the jail van with the others and tried to tug ME out. Unsuccessful, they ventilated their frustration on my Mercedes Benz, breaking its screen and putt dents in its body with their batons. They conjointly snatched my phone,” he aforementioned concerning the atrocious incident.
His skin was saved solely when a member of Islamabad police at the scene accomplished that the person being manhandled was President of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and business and intervened.
Damage to private property apart, it's the psychological impact of such incidents on the victims that ought to worry the authorities.
Murtaza Saeed, AN engineer, conjointly felt extraordinarily insecure once, instead of signal with a flash light-weight, policemen at a stop waved batons to prevent his automobile. “It looked as if they were coming back to attack ME,” he said.
Except one, senior police officers declined to investigate what Shaban Khalid et al. fully fledged.
“Coercive police is inherent once sure sections of the law square measure invoked,” aforementioned the exceptional officer of the Islamabad police on the condition of obscurity.
“However, we tend to square measure wanting into reports that have come back to North American country concerning geographic area policemen resorting to mistreatment excessive force and even beating some individuals.”
Station House Officer Kohsar station Abdul Sattar crowned head said: “We have asked the victim (Shaban Khalid) to file a report with the police.”
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