SHC moved for inquiry against SSP Rao Anwar

Ex-police officer Niaz Ahmed Khoso requests probe

should be conducted by NAB and FIA

A petition was filed in the Sindh High Court on Wednesday, seeking an inquiry into allegations that Malir SSP Rao Anwar had laundered over Rs85 billion and accumulated assets and properties beyond his known source of income.

In his petition, former SSP Niaz Ahmed Khoso has requested that the investigation be carried out by the National Accountability Bureau and the Federal Investigation Agency, alleging that Anwar has accumulated ill-gotten money by grabbing state land through China-cutting, laundering money and purchasing assets in the name of family members and other relatives.

He has further charged that Anwar, who has been working as superintendent of police in the Malir district for the nine years, has laundered more than Rs85 billion from Pakistan to other countries with the help of police officials posted at the Karachi airport.

According to the petition, Anwar frequently goes abroad and since May 29, 2012, he has travelled abroad 89 times without any official visit. Khoso says that Anwar has managed to be posted in the airport and Malir areas for carrying out his illegal activities. 

The former police officer has further alleged that Anwar as a taxpayer shows his monthly income to be Rs70,000, but he owns a property worth Rs500 million in Sector F-10/4 of Islamabad.

Citing the interior ministry, NAB, Federal Investigation Agency and others as respondents, the petitioner has requested the court to direct NAB to conduct an inquiry, seek a report from the inspector general of police about Anwar’s tenure in Malir, and in meantime order the placement of his name on the Exit Control List so that he could not flee from the country.

Khoso has also alleged that SSP Anwar is involved in the illegal detention of his son, Mehrab Khoso, a sub-inspector in anti-encroachment police. The matter is also pending in the SHC.