Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar on Friday appeared before an inquiry commission that has been set up to probe the veracity of a `police encounter’ in which Naseemullah, better known as Naqeebullah Mehsud, was shot dead by Malir police on Jan 13.

The first half of the session has concluded and the committee will reconvene after the Friday prayers. Anwar submitted the FIR to the committee.

Anwar arrived at the office of the deputy inspector general (DIG) of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday afternoon where he also spoke to the media briefly. The SSP said that Mehsud, whose name is Naseemullah on his national identity card, was nominated in a 2014 first information report (FIR) of a kidnapping incident registered in Sachal police station and was on the run.

“He was 100 per cent a terrorist,” Anwar claimed. He alleged that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was trying to malign him because he had lodged two FIRs against PTI member Haleem Adil Sheikh, adding that he was being targeted by some “political elements”.