[DAWN] The Senate’s Standing Committee on Interior has issued directives to the ministry of interior, the government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
(KP) and police to include Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
as a suspect in the Malala Yousafzai
...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...
attack case.
Moreover, it was suggested that a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) should be constituted to interrogate him [Ehsan] as he had first-hand information of the case.
In a letter addressed to the interior ministry, KP home ministry and the Inspector General Police, the chairman of the standing committee, Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
, said that since the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for
students...
Pakistain (TTP) had claimed the responsibility for the attack on Ms Yousafzai at the time when Ehsan was the spokesperson for the krazed killer group, he should be included in the investigation.
The letter said that the responsibility of attack on Ms Yousafzai was claimed by the Taliban and was announced by their then spokesperson, Ehsan.
"While he [Ehsan] is now in jug and has made several revelations about the involvement of India, Afghanistan and other countries in terrorism activities, it is important to investigate the motives behind the attack on Ms Yousafzai and see if any country was involved," letter said.
"The name may be put in the FIR of the attack on Ms Yousafzai for further course of investigation. A JIT should be constituted to interrogate him as he has first hand information of the case. Moreover progress of the previous investigation and details of the FIR and statements of the maiden, her parents, colleagues and other witnesses may be put before the committee," letter added.