London (HRNW) The UK government has placed a travel ban on former Pakistan police officer Rao Anwar and frozen his assets under its Sanctions Act.
Anwar, who retired as a senior superintendent of police, was on the UK sanctions list which was released Friday. The kingdom implements a global human rights sanctions regime through regulations under its Sanctions Act.
In his role as the Malir SSP, Anwar was reportedly “responsible for numerous staged police encounters in which individuals were killed by police, and was directly involved in over 190 police encounters that resulted in the deaths of over 400 people, including the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud in 2018,” the British government said in a statement on its website.
Anwar is therefore “responsible for, or complicit in, the serious violations of the right to life,” it added.
Anwar was suspended after he was accused of killing 27-year-old Mehsud and four others at a farmhouse in Karachi’s Shah Latif Town on January 13, 2018.
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