ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of people from Pakistan’s most powerful tribe are rallying in the capital, Islamabad, demanding the arrest of a police officer accused of killing a 27-year-old aspiring model in Karachi, the country’s largest city.
Thursday’s rare protest by the Mehsud tribe comes hours after a court ordered officer Rao Anwar arrested for the death of Naqeeb Ullah in a Jan. 13 shootout.
Ullah was from the Mehsud tribe and a government probe says he was innocent. Authorities have relieved Anwar of his duties.
Holding portraits of Ullah, protesters said they came to seek justice.
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The protesters are from the Taliban’s former stronghold of South Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan, and other nearby towns and cities.
They have threatened to hold a sit-in outside parliament if Anwar is not arrested.