KARACHI: Although the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced on Monday night that they were responsible for the murder of DSP Ali Raza of the Counter-Terrorism Department, the forensic examination of the spent bullet casings found at the scene of the crime has presented an impossible situation for the investigators looking into the killing. It turns out that the murder weapon had never been used before.
On Sunday, armed pillion riders shot and killed CTD’s DSP Ali Raza in his former neighborhood in Shakeel Corporation, Karimabad.
According to a social media message purportedly issued by the banned TTP, its gunmen had attacked DSP Raza. DIG-CTD Asif Ejaz Shaikh, on the other hand, disagreed with the assertion and informed Dawn that he was unable to confirm it at this time.
In response to media reports claiming that the murder was the work of the heretofore unidentified group Al-Fajr, the DIG stated that this was only a social media group and that no such organization existed. He didn’t go into detail.
The detectives looking into DSP Raza’s death had earlier in the day revealed that they had learned the murder weapon—a pistol—had never been used in a murder case before.
According to sources, their current focus is on obtaining CCTV footage in order to identify the killers.
Senior CTD official Raja Umar Khattab told Dawn that the DSP’s death was not caused by a match between expended bullet casings.
