Shortly after being acquitted for the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud, former SSP Rao Anwar hurled fresh allegations at the deceased, calling him a ‘proclaimed offender’. Anwar also demanded his police job back.

“His name was not Naqeebullah. It was Naseemullah. And he was a proclaimed offender,” Anwar claimed speaking to reporters at the court.

Rao Anwar said that he was implicated in a false case that had now reached “its logical conclusion.”

Rao Anwar also demanded that he should be reinstated as Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP). “I would wish to be given back one remaining year. I will serve this city,” he said.

Anwar was arrested in March 2018 and later released on bail, but he was never allowed to work as a police officer again and went into retirement after attaining superannuation in January 2019.

The former SSP said that he was ready to fight for justice “until the last breath.”

Anwar said he would speak about the case on various TV shows he expects to be invited to.

He said Naseemullah’s original ID card was with the police and he had provided a copy to the court.

The Naseemullah vs Naqeebullah confusion arose shortly after the January 2018 killing when it was reported that Naqeebullah’s real name was Naseemullah. The name Naseemullah was on his CNIC and other documents but he was widely known as Naqeebullah mainly due to his Facebook profile.

Mehsud was 27-year-old and a father of three children when he was killed.

The former SSP, who was accused of 444 extrajudicial murders by the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) in 2018, told reporters on Monday that he rid the city of many “cruel people” and he will continue to fight against such people.