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In Pakistan, dead men tell no tales
Still more on the even later Farooqi...
...Asia Times Online contacts, however, are adamant that Farooqi was in fact arrested some months ago, and that the "incident" resulting in his death in the southern Pakistani city of Nawabshah was in fact stage-managed by Pakistani security forces.

Pakistan's establishment recently labeled Amjad Farooqi al-Qaeda's mastermind in the country. However, Asia Times Online contacts say that, certainly, Amjad was wanted in connection with the murder of Pearl in Karachi in 2002. The contacts claim, though, that Amjad was in fact a "stand-alone" operator who did not draw support from any one organization as he was able to gather his own manpower and financial resources. Senior intelligence officers told Asia Times Online that while Farooqi was a stand-alone operator, he carried out specific operations in conjunction with local and foreign elements.

In the Punjab police criminal investigation department's "red book", Farooqi is serialized as No 1497 under the name of Amjad Hussain alias Farooqi, alias Haider Ali, son of Mohammed Afzal, a 30-year-old standing five feet seven inches (170 centimeters). He is listed as coming from Toba Taik Singh, but southern Punjab has been his main playing field. He was last seen in Karachi's Quaidabad suburb in the Tariq Hotel, on the same day that Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, a leading Sunni cleric, was assassinated. Farooqi was at some stage a member of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, a banned group of sectarian assassins who target Shi'ite Muslims.
Posted by: tipper 2004-09-27
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