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Pakistan authorities are investigating a video which appears to show the shooting of an unarmed man by five members of the security forces in Karachi. Major General Aijaz Chaudhry, the chief ranger for Sindh province, said the inquiry was set up after footage of the alleged killing on Thursday of Afsa Shah, 18, appeared on local television stations and the internet website, YouTube. Shah is alleged to have attempted to steal from a policeman’s family in Clifton, Karachi‘s most exclusive neighbourhood, on Wednesday. Shah’s brother, Salik, a local TV crime reporter, denied Afsar was a robber and accused the the security forces, also known as rangers, of shooting an innocent person. “My brother has been killed extra judicially. My innocent brother has been killed brutally by the rangers,” said Salik. “What harm has he inflicted on anybody?” The footage of the alleged brutal killing of the man has outraged Pakistanis. Many people in Pakistan are already losing confidence in the national military, following the US killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and recurring fatal US drone attacks within Pakistan’s borders. The graphic video appears to depicting the young man pleading for his life before he is shot in the hand and thigh by a soldier and then left to die.
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A court on Friday remanded into custody two paramilitary soldiers over the killing of an unarmed man that shocked the country.
Rangers personnel Shahid Zafar and Mohammed Afzal were handed over to police in Karachi on Friday by their military commanders, senior police official Tariq Dharejo told AFP.
“We have produced them in a sessions court where the judge remanded them into police custody for five days until Wednesday,” Dharejo added.
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