Islamabad, June 17(ANI): As Pakistani officials investigate two cases of extrajudicial killings by paramilitary police force personnel caught on video, both cameramen report that they have been threatened for having recorded the incidents.
Last week, Pakistan was shaken by graphic video that showed members of a paramilitary police force shooting an unarmed teenager suspected of stealing in a park in Karachi.
The television cameraman- Abdul Salam Soomro- who recorded the shooting received death threats, and came under intense pressure to say that the chilling video, which was broadcast across Pakistan, was fabricated, The New York Times reports.
Despite those threats, Soomro testified on Wednesday that he had been filming as the officers detained and shot the teenaged suspect, Sarfaraz Shah, and then left the park without responding to his pleas to be taken to a hospital. The young man later died as a result of the two gunshot wounds inflicted just a few feet in front of Soomro's camera.
Earlier this week, another Pakistani cameraman, who was filming as five unarmed foreigners were shot and killed by members of a paramilitary police force in Quetta last month, told a judicial commission investigating that incident that he had been detained and beaten by police officers.
Jamal Tarakai, who filmed Pakistani Frontier Corps officers shooting a group of five Russian and Tajik nationals at a checkpoint in Quetta's Kharotabad district in May, was released an hour later on Tuesday after being arrested and tortured by police personnel at the Kharotabad police station earlier that morning, The Express Tribune reported. (ANI)
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