UK slaps travel ban, economic curbs on Rao Anwar
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December 12, 2020
LONDON: Britain has slapped travel ban and economic sanctions on former Karachi SSP Rao Anwar Ahmed Khan and 64 other individuals and three entities for being involved in gross human rights abuses including torture and murder including the killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud in 2018.
Speaking to The News and Geo here, a spokesman of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which issued the list, confirmed that Rao Anwar Ahmad Khan, former senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Malir District, Karachi, has been sanctioned.
Rao Anwar has been added to the damning list by the British government on suspicions of being behind 190 staged police encounters that led to more than 400 deaths in Karachi. The Foreign Office said Anwar and former president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, are facing sanctions for historic human rights violations including extrajudicial killings of protesters and minority groups. On the design
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December 12, 2020
LONDON: Britain has slapped a travel ban and economic sanctions on former Karachi police officer Rao Anwar Ahmed Khan and 64 other individuals and three entities for being allegedly involved in gross human rights abuses.
Speaking to The News, a spokesman for Foreign and Commonwealth office confirmed that “Anwar Ahmad Khan: Former Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in Malir District, Karachi” has been sanctioned. Anwar has been added to the list on suspicions of being allegedly behind 190 staged police encounters that led to more than 400 deaths in Karachi, including the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud in 2018.
The Foreign Office said Anwar Ahmed Khan and former president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, are facing sanctions for historical human rights violations. In the designated list, Anwar appears at number 59. The UK government explained that he has been slapped with sanctions which include assets freeze and travel ban to the UK. These sanctions give
Rao Anwar slapped with travel ban, asset freeze by UK for human rights violations
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The British government has imposed travel and financial sanctions on Rao Anwar
Rao Anwar was allegedly involved in 190 police encounters that resulted in the deaths of over 400 people
Sanctions give the UK powers to stop those involved in serious human rights abuses and violations from entering the country, channelling money through UK banks, or profiting from its economy
LONDON: The British government on Thursday slapped a travel ban and economic sanctions on former Karachi police officer Rao Anwar Ahmed Khan for being involved in gross human rights abuses like torture and murder including the killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud in 2018.
The former dictator, whose election defeat to Adama Barrow in December 2016 forced him to flee, was one of three from the West African nation on an updated list targeting ten people across the globe.