Naqeebullah Mehsud (نقيب الله محسود; also known as Naseemullah,[1] Naqib Maseed, or by his nickname Veer[6]) was killed on January 13, 2018 in Karachi, Pakistan during a fake encounter staged by the senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Karachi's Malir District, Rao Anwar.[7][8] On January 3, Naqeebullah was kidnapped along with two of his friends, Hazrat Ali and Mohammed Qasim, by Rao Anwar's men in plainclothes from Gul Sher Agha Hotel in Sohrab Goth, Karachi.[9] On January 6, both of his friends were freed by the police,[10] but Naqeebullah was kept in captivity, tortured, and then killed on January 13 in a fake encounter in which he was shot twice in the back.[7] Alongside Naqeebullah, three other men namely Muhammad Sabir and Muhammad Ishaq from Bahawalpur and Nazar Jan Mahsud from South Waziristan were also killed by the police in the staged encounter, the latter of whom was shot from a close range.[4][11] On January 17, Naqeebullah's dead body was handed over to his relatives at the Chhipa Welfare Association morgue in Karachi.[10] On January 18, his body was taken by his relatives to Tank, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Islamic funeral prayer was performed for him,[13] and on the same day, he was buried at his hometown Makin, South Waziristan.[14] The fake encounter sparked countrywide protests against extrajudicial killings in Pakistan.[13]