PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Investigators say police mistakenly killed Senator Sherin Agha when he drove through a police ambush set for Taliban militants in northern Baghlan last Wednesday, but family described it 'a deliberate action.' Sherin Agha, a member of the Upper House of Parliament or Meshrano Jirga was killed by police when he drove through an ambush set for Taliban fighters at a police check post in Jar Kaskan area of Baghlan-i-Jadid on Wednesday. The probe carried out by a delegation of the Interior Ministry on Monday showed Sherin Agha and his son Wasiuddin were mistakenly killed by the police. The 47-year-old Senator was a former member of the Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) led by Gulbadin Hekmatyar and secretary of complaints commission at Meshrano Jirga. Head of counter-terrorism department at the ministry of interior, Major General Abdul Manan Farahi, who headed the investigation, told Pajhwok Afghan News that police had suspected that there might be wounded militants in the vehicle the senator was traveling in. police opened fire at the vehicle when it failed to respond to warning signals. However, Farahi rejected the rumours that the senator had any links with militants. But Shakirullah, son-in-law of the senator, meanwhile, alleged that police had intentionally killed his father-in-law. He said the senator was wounded in police fire, but police did not hospitalise him. "The investigation should continue until real causes of the killing are known and perpetrators identified," he added. Police spokesman Javed Basharat said four police involved in the incident and three guards of the senator had been arrested for investigation. The investigation was ordered by President Hamid Karzai last week. frm/ma
