Naqeebullah murder: The 'encounter' that ended Pakistan's passivity over extra-judicial killings
The killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud has unleashed festering anger at a rash of alleged extrajudicial murders and the police accused of orchestrating them.
Hundreds of people die each year at the hands of law enforcement officers under pressure to crack down on kidnapping, murder and gang crime in a city routinely ranked among the most dangerous in the world.
But the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Mehsud, an aspiring model whose goofy dance videos and airbrushed brown locks had earned him a large Facebook following, brought thousands of people onto the streets to urge an end to impunity.
“We demand that his killer be hanged publicly,” said Mohammad Khan Mehsud of a national outcry over his son's death.“We saw people from all the four provinces (of Pakistan) — men and women, kids, youngsters and sisters — show solidarity with him”.