KARACHI: Former SSP Malir Rao Anwar involved in the extra judicial killing of Naqeebullah Mehsood failed to appear before the inquiry committee comprising of Sindh Inspector General (IG) of Police A.D. Khowaja and the National Commission for Human Rights on Monday.

According to reports, SP Investigation East Abid Qaimkhani summoned former SSP to appear before the IG and the NCHR today.

The SSP claimed that the investigation carried out against him are biased and unfair with a motive to derailed him reputation. Anwar insisted that 'He' had nothing to do with the encounter of Naqeeb, further adding that, the police party that abducted Naqeeb and killed him mislead him to the whole situation.

Anwar and other officers last week killed at least four men during what they claimed was a raid on a suspected Taliban hideout in Karachi.

Relatives of one of the dead men, who was identified as Naqeebullah Mehsud, 27, from South Waziristan tribal district, rejected the claims of militant links and said he was an aspiring model who arrived in Karachi in 2008 in search of job and had been running a shop in the city.

The killing led to a national outcry after Mehsud’s modelling pictures posted on social media went viral, triggering protest rallies in several cities.

A government committee interrogated Anwar on Jan 19 (Friday) and recommended his immediate removal “to ensure fair and transparent inquiry of the incident and investigation of the case.”

The chief justice has ordered the provincial government to submit a report into the killing within a week.

Anwar, along with some other police officers, had been accused of serial fake “encounters”.