Most of these encounter specialists are government's henchmen/goons
It's probably Punjab in general under PMLn but for Lahore and surrounding areas I know that police was brutal with encounter killings, like when the government wanted someone off- they'd go off off for sure
What government want is stability - those who kill, steal, rob, even street crimes they'd be killed straight up, no questions asked
I am pretty sure a bunch of innocent people died
In return for this stability - politicians, encounter "specialist" police and their goons want cut in drug money, land grabbing and all the crimes that are bad for society but won't bring chaos in society
Front man would be a goon but behind the goon it's the police and ruling party- goons who kill regular people, steal, rob are bad for buisness thus end up dying