Motorway police distributing Aftari

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Inside the box

 

[Imran Khan]

kal to bus waloon ko goliyaan mar rahy thy aaj khana de rahy hain

 

[Valar Dohaeris]

kal to bus waloon ko goliyaan mar rahy thy aaj khana de rahy hain

That was Islamabad Police.

 

[Imran Khan]

That was Islamabad Police.

Three injured as motorway police opens fire on passenger bus
By Arsalan Altaf
Published: May 30, 2018
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Damaged bus. PHOTO: EXPRESS

ISLAMABAD: At least two men were injured after a Motorway police officer opened fire on a passenger bus near Islamabad Motorway toll plaza on Wednesday noon.

Police say the bus (No LES-18-09), which was coming from Peshawar, was suspected to be carrying smuggled and non-custom paid items and was thus signaled to pull over. A video captured by a an unidentified motorist who was travelling behind the bus at the time shows a Motorway patrol car chasing the bus and later the officers opening fire on the bus as it exited the Motorway.

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A spokesperson for the Motorway police told The Express Tribune that they had been alerted by the customs authorities in Peshawar that this specific bus was carrying non-custom paid goods. He said the bus staff misbehaved with an officer when he tried to stop and search the bus at the toll plaza. He said a patrol car chased the bus when the driver tried to speed away, and after giving a chase and blowing their hooter for some time, they opened fire on the bus. “Clearly, the officers were also at fault for opening fire on the bus. Both the officers have been suspended and an inquiry ordered against them,” the spokesperson said.

PHOTO: EXPRESS

The video shot by a motorist clearly shows the bus driver blocking the police car when the latter tried to overtake it.

The patrol officers were identified as SI Shahid Gul and SI Aitezaz. At least one passenger, Gulfraz Khan, and the bus conductor Abdur Rehman were injured in the police firing. Soon afterwards, an attempted murder case was registered against the two officers at the local Nasirabad police station on the complaint of the injured passenger.

While the injured passenger maintained in his complaint that both the officers fled the scene after they found that people had been injured, the spokesperson insisted that they did not escape, rather they took the injured to a nearby hospital and later to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital.

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The Motorway police spokesperson said as per the claims of the two officers, they only shot in retaliation and the first fire was made from inside the bus. However, the local police who arrived and took the bus into their custody said neither the bus carried any smuggled or non-customs paid goods nor was there firing from inside the bus.

Local police said they were awaiting the outcome of the departmental inquiry against the two officers before taking any action. “We have taken the bus into our custody. No smuggled items were recovered from it. There was no firing from the bus,” an officer of the Rawalpindi police said.

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[PurpleButcher]

Why didn't they fire on the tyres?

 

[Imran Khan]

Why didn't they fire on the tyres?

the have no clue what they were doing . same like rangers killed surfraz in karachi remember ?

 

[Major Sam]

Why didn't they fire on the tyres?

Because its speeding and thats more dangerous as it can roll over.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Because its speeding and thats more dangerous as it can roll over.

If UK polive decided to use guns on every fleeing vehicle we would have a weekly dead count running in to 100s. The appropriate response should be unless you fancy yourself as sherif in the wild west is to follow the vehicle,call back up and then find a safe place to stop/apprehend suspects.

What next? Use RPGs to disable vehicles ??

 

[war&peace]

Why didn't they fire on the tyres?

It is a bus, running at 100+ kph, a burst tire means a catastrophe. But they should have fired in the air to let the driver know that they are armed and can use 'em. However it was totally wrong to fire at the bus either because it had a lot of innocent passengers and motorway can easily be blocked by police since there are only a few designated entrances / exits called interchanges. It is good though that no one died.

 

[Valar.]

Thats aprox. Rs. 100 box. Why are they wasting money?

[ Rs 30 for juice, 30 for water, 10 for peanuts, 10 for cupcake, 10-20 rupees for dates+box ]

 

[Major Sam]

If UK polive decided to use guns on every fleeing vehicle we would have a weekly dead count running in to 100s. The appropriate response should be unless you fancy yourself as sherif in the wild west is to follow the vehicle,call back up and then find a safe place to stop/apprehend suspects.

What next? Use RPGs to disable vehicles ??

They had received QA

Thats aprox. Rs. 100 box. Why are they wasting money?

Akways try to appreciate positive things

 

[Valar.]

Akways try to appreciate positive things

I do try, but where did they get the money from? Did some organisation gave them or is it govt. funds?

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Another thing, aren't people exempted from fasting if they are travelling more than 70 kms(or something like that)? If so, what's the iftari box for on motorway ?

 

[PurpleButcher]

Because its speeding and thats more dangerous as it can roll over.

This incident happened right in front of my office. It had taken the exit from Kashmir Highway towards GT road at 26 No. Chungi. The firing took place at the exit. GT road is quite congested especially the merging from this narrow exit to main GT road is a quite slow process because of traffic and a small bazaar visible in the end part of video as well. The fact is the speed of bus visible in the early part of video could in no possible way have been sustained after it had taken the exit. So once in the bazaar or while merging to GT road they could have had several options at slower speeds to engage.

Moreover, since the police claims they had info about drugs movement and knew the bus was escaping, they could have called reinforcements on this exit as well as the police checkpost hardly after 1 KM from this exit had he continued on Kashmir highway infront of G-14.

The point I am trying to make is the option chosen by the traffic police was the worst possible. Imagine if some innocent had been killed, a pregnant lady etc.

Is this the SOP of traffic police? If yes its faulty! If not, they should have followed their SOP. If no SOP exists, IG traffic police and rest of the chain command must be fired! I don't see enough media outrage at this event, wonder had the injured been a son of a judge/general/secretary etc, would our media and govt. behaved in the same manner?