SP Jamil Kakar killed in Quetta for investigating Shia Hazara murders?

Police said the terrorists sprayed Quetta’s Superintendent Police (SP) Investigation Jamil Kakar with bullets when he left his house in his official car, killing him and injuring a police guard.

“Jamil Kakar died on the spot. We are investigating the motives of the attack,” Salim Lahri, another senior police official in Quetta. He said the attackers fled on the motorcycle and police have launched a search for their arrest.”

Officials said Kakar was investigating several sectarian attacks and that he had received threats in the recent past. In particular, he was investigating the cases of martyrdoms of Shia Hazara citizens of Pakistan.

Kakar was on his way to appear for the hearing of the Balochistan law and order case which was heard at the Supreme Court’s Quetta registry.

He was earlier posted at Brewery Road Police Station in Quetta as a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP). He was later promoted to the post of SP and was transferred to the Sariab Road Police Station.

Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but anti-Shia terrorism has left thousands of people dead in Pakistan since the late 1980s.

More than 400 Shias have been killed in targeted attacks this year across Pakistan, including more than 100 in Balochistan, the majority from the Hazara community. Human Rights Watch also issued a report in this regard.