| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| Two arrested in Imran Farooq murder case |
| 2011-08-27 |
| [Dawn] Two men were tossed in the calaboose at Bloody Karachi airport a few days ago in connection with the killing of MQM leader Imran Farooq in London in September last year. The suspects are said to be affiliated to a political party. Officials privy to details told this correspondent that the tossed in the calaboose men had travelled to UK on student visa, stabbed Dr Farooq to death and then flown to Sri Lanka. They were apprehended soon after they came out of the airport in Bloody Karachi after having travelled from Colombo. It is learnt that they were tossed in the calaboose on a tip from British intelligence and other sources. Their names have not been disclosed but the sources said that the president, prime minister and security establishment had been informed about the matter. The sources said the arrests were made by personnel of the country`s elite intelligence agency with the help of photographs and videos provided by the British authorities. The tossed in the calaboose persons have been kept in Bloody Karachi and investigation is in progress. The accused had flown to London in August 2010 and the murder took place on September 16. London`s Metropolitan Police and Scotland Yard had launched an investigation and tossed in the calaboose a suspect who was released later for lack of evidence. Dr Farooq had co-founded the All Pakistain Mohajir Students Organisation (APMSO), the parent organization of Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , with Altaf Hussain. He was deputy convener of the party, technically next to the MQM chief. But he left the party in 2009 after developing differences over organizational matters. The arrest of the suspected killers is considered to be a major breakthrough in the case. |
| Posted by:Fred |