( CNN ) -- In a Pakistani public park , Sarfraz Shah begs not to be shot . He is unarmed but quickly surrounded by paramilitary forces in camouflage cargo pants and Ranger T-shirts . Shah pleads with the men carrying automatic rifles . `` I am helpless , '' he cries . `` Please do not fire . '' Then , two shots and screams of pain . The crimson of blood colors the ground beneath him . Shah begs to be taken to a hospital . He bleeds to death . The chilling scene was captured on video by a local television cameraman and broadcast across Pakistan 's networks . It was the latest in a series of human rights incidents that has horrified the south Asian nation and deeply eroded public confidence in security agencies . `` This kind of anger among the public and even politicians has n't been seen before , '' said Zohra Yusuf , chairwoman of the Pakistan Human Rights Commission . `` It was the way the young man was brutally shot dead in close quarters , '' she said . `` And the footage showed very clearly that he was not armed . The footage itself is so crystal clear . It tells the whole story . '' Shah , age 17 and dressed in a dark shirt and jeans , tried to rob people at a fairly new park named in honor of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto , police say . Karachi police official Rafiq Gul said Shah pointed a pistol and wanted to steal cash and cell phones . Shah 's gun was confiscated and he was handed over to park security and then to the Rangers , police say . Shah apparently tried to snatch the Rangers ' guns , Gul said . That 's when the soldiers opened fire . Thursday evening , Pakistani television stations were abuzz with the shooting . Journalists accused the security forces of serious breaches of human rights . They brought up the torture and killing of journalist Syed Saleem Shehzad , an expert on al Qaeda killed in late May . Pakistan 's Inter Services Intelligence is suspected in the killing . Shehzad had told Human Rights Watch about threats he received from the ISI and the global monitoring agency has urged a complete investigation . The spy agency 's reputation had already fallen after the killing of al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces . Also in May , police and paramilitary forces in Quetta killed five Chechen citizens who were labeled at the time as suicide bombers but turned out to be unarmed civilians . Yusuf said one of the slain was a woman who was seven months pregnant . Pakistan 's Supreme Court on Friday ordered transfers for the heads of the Sindh Rangers and the provincial police force , according to Ikram Chaudhry , a senior Supreme Court lawyer . Chaudhry said the court also ordered hearings in a lower court . But part of the problem , said Yusuf , is that Pakistanis feel that often , security forces act with impunity without ever having to face justice . `` Almost all go unpunished -- they do not face the kind of justice that a civilian would face , '' she said . `` The question of impunity encourages this kind of trigger happiness . '' Yusuf acknowledged that Pakistan is rife with terrorist incidents and that security forces often must act swiftly . `` They do tend to panic and overreact , '' Yusuf said . `` They shoot to kill rather than take other measures . '' Interior Minister Rehman Malik vowed justice but tempered his comments about Shah . `` There should be no doubt that this video shows an unjust action , '' he said . `` Action will be taken against the soldiers , but no one should forget he [ the victim ] is a criminal . He pointed a pistol at two women and then he tried to rob them . `` There are two things -- one , his criminal record , and another , an unjust killing , '' Malik said . `` I assure the relatives of the victim the investigation will be transparent and neutral and the results will be made public . These are the criminals that create problems for the public ; but it does not justify killing like this . '' Shah 's family insisted that the Rangers had killed an innocent man . `` My son was innocent , '' his mother said . `` They killed him . '' Yusuf said that after Shah 's killing , it will take a lot to restore the trust of the Pakistani public . Nobody , she said , knows anymore whether they will be next .
Sarfraz Shah begs for his life on the video . He is shot by members of the Sindh Rangers . The incident is one of a series of human rights breaches . A human rights activist says security forces were trigger happy .