KARACHI: Two former SHOs and their other colleagues, booked on the order ofthe Sindh High Court (SHC) for killing a 17-year-old boy in a fake encounter, would be tried by an antiterrorism court, the SHC ordered on Monday.

A two-judge bench ordered the shifting of the murder case against former Sachal SHO Ismail Lashari, former SHO Sohrab Goth Shoaib Siddiqui and others to the ATC on a petition of Anwer Ali Soomro, the father of victim Anisur Rahman Soomro who was killed in June 2014.

Earlier, on another petition of the victim`s father, the SHC had ordered the registration of an FIR against the SHOs and other police officials.However, SHO Lashari later assailed the SHC judgement through an appeal before the apex court submitting that he was not given a fair hearing by the high court. His appeal was dismissed by the apex court.

According to the victim`s father, Anis was a Class X student who was arrested along with his two friends by the Sachal Goth police near Safoora Goth in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on June 12, 2014.

He informed the judges that he had repeatedly visited the police station to learn the reasons for the arrest of his son and his friends. But SHO Lashari demanded Rs500,000 for his son`s release and later killed him in a fake encounter because he was unable to pay the bribe, he said.

Anwer Soomro had also filed a petition in the district and ses-sions court in Malir on June 20, 2014, against the illegal confinement of his son, informing the judge that the police had threatened to kill his son if he did not pay the bribe they had demanded.

Following the hearing, an official raided the police station on the order of the district and sessions judge, but the young boy was not found there.

Mr Soomro said his son had been detained for 10 days at the Sachal police station before he was taken to a nearby Afghan refugee camp where he was killed on June 22, 2014. He said his son had never been associated with any religious militant group.

The victim`s father also told the judges that the police of ficers booked in the murder case of his son were forcing him to withdraw the case. Later, Mr Soomro toldreporters that his son worked at an electronics shop in Sachal Goth after doing his Matric from Larkana.

Pak-Turk School staf fers` case Another division bench extended its earlier interim orderthathadsuspendedthefederal government`s order to deport Pak-Turk Schools` staffers.

The bench issued a notice to the interior secretary and deputy attorney general to respond to the petition by May 22.

As many as 34 petitioners, including parents of children studying in a Pak-Turk School and its staffers, moved the SHC through a constitutional petition requesting it to declare the interior ministry`s orders as illegal and unconstitutional.They further asked the court to restrain the authorities from deporting the Turkish employees of the Pak-Turk Foundation and their families and order extension of their visas.

The petitioners stated that the government`s decision of not extending the visas at this juncture in an abrupt manner was bound to have devastating consequences for the over 11,000 students studying in the 26 schools across the country.

They submitted in the petition that the students were in the middle of their educational session which would be completed in March 2017 and added that the government`s decision was likely to affect their education.

The petitioners said the right of education under Article 25-A of the country`s Constitution did not place merely an obligation onthe state to provide education but also ensured that the education provided was of the highest possible standard and quality.

They said the exceptional standard of quality education provided at the schools largely depended on the hardworking Turkish teachers, who helped the students achieve excellence.

The interior ministry had on Nov 14, 2016 ordered the Turkish staff of the educational network to leave Pakistan within a week.

The extension in visa applications of these staffers was also rejected.

Turkey`s visiting Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu had in August requested Pakistan to close down the Pak-Turk Schools for their alleged links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Pakistan had promised that it would look into the issue.