Islamabad, Pakistan – A court in Pakistan has acquitted 18 police officers, including a former senior police official, over the 2018 killing of a Pashtun man in Karachi that triggered protests and a social media outcry.
Naqeebullah Mehsud, an aspiring model and a textile factory worker, was fatally shot along with three other people during what police described as a raid on a hideout of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) armed group. Mehsud’s family and the TTP denied that the 27-year-old was a member of the group.
