In the latest development in Pakistan’s triple Barkhan murder case, the Police and Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) rescued women and children from the private jail of arrested Balochistan minister Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran, according to Dawn.
Pakistan’s ATF team conducted a raid at Khetran’s private jail and recovered seven people, including two women and three children. Six other proclaimed fugitives were also apprehended by ATF and the police. The police recovered arms and ammunition from their possession, Dawn said.
Pakistani police, on Wednesday, arrested the Balochistan Minister for Construction and Communication in his alleged connection with the murder of three people, whose bodies were found in a well in the Barkhan district. ARY News reported.
Police took Khetran into custody as he was accused of murdering those three people, a spokeswoman said as the protesters continued their sit-in for the second consecutive day in Quetta, demanding justice.
Responding to the Barkhan triple murder incident, the provincial minister stated that baseless propaganda is being hatched against him, he has been in Quetta for the past 10 days and was challenged to find a private jail or a cell in his area, according to vernacular media Urdu Point.
The protesters, who have staged a sit-in along with the three bodies at the Fayyaz Sumbal Chowk, have demanded that a case be registered against Khetran, he should be removed from the ministry, and the five people in captivity are recovered.
Muhammad Marri, the man whose three family members were murdered, has accused Khetran of keeping his five other family members in a “private jail.” In the latest development of the Barkhan case, the post-mortem examination of a girl.