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In a very rare development, the Chief Capital City Police Officer Peshawar has sacked a sub-inspector, and three constables for looting Afghan refugees.
The News appeared in today's local newspaper Mashriq that the Chief Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Liaqat Ali Khan has sacked a sub-inspector Shahbaz Khan, three constables Naveed, Arif and Ebad Sher for looting Afghan refugees. A case has been registered against the group of four.
The four policemen were involved in misuse of power and wrongly teasing the Afghan refugees living in the metropolis. The group belongs to the Town Police Station. Town area is one of the few posh localities, which is well populated by the Afghan refugees for decades. An FIR has been registered against them by a fellow charging the four of stopping vans and getting its Afghan occupants looted. After their arrest, the looted money, which counts in thousands, has been recovered. The four were sacked officially when CCPO Liaqat Ali Khan came to know about the unchecked incident.
This is a very rare incident of punishing policemen who are involved in teasing the Afghan refugees. Teasing and harassing Afghans is one of the most widespread and rarely checked incidents. In fact, policemen proudly call it their right to stop, check, tease, harass and then ask for money and if not given snatch it from the Afghans usually in a threatening way. In most cases where non-compliance is the answer, these poor refugees are put behind bars. They will then have to either undergo three months in prison and an ultimate deportation or pay even a bigger amount to get his name written off the FIR book or hire a good lawyer to get him released in time. Hundreds of such incidents go on unchecked regularly. However, one exemplary punishment could mend the wrong to some extent though the general perception is that no such actions can change the attitude of a police force that has become part of its psyche for as long as Afghans have lived in Pakistan.
