Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
in 2003.
But his body "disappeared for two days" to end up in Russia on December 26.
Red-faced Pak authorities suspended two Islamabad coppers after a hasty inquiry into the melodrama.
Local police had no immediate comment to offer on record. But Inspector General Tahir Alam Khan emailed Dawn that "Temuri (his deputy) will brief you in this regard."
However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
a Russian embassy's blurb of December 22, and multiple official sources in the Ministry of Interior and the Islamabad administration and police, revealed a tale of human emotions at play.
In its press statement, the Russian embassy regretted that Islamabad not only "did not respond" to its appeals to commute the death sentence of "Russian citizen Akhlak, who also had a Pak citizenship" but also did not inform it about the decision to carry out the death sentence.
Akhlaq was once district health officer in Rawlakot, Azad Kashmire.
His Pak father, Akhlas, collected the body after the execution in Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
on December 21 and buried it in his native town Hajeera the same day.
His Russian mother arrived in Islamabad to take her son's body with the help of the Russian embassy, according to the official sources.
"After getting no response, she and Russian diplomats proceeded to Hajeera. In two days, they managed to get the body exhumed and returned to Islamabad with it late on December 23," the officials said.
When they appeared at the Pakistain Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) to put the body in its mortuary, "some intelligence sleuths alerted the police and the administration and directives came to confiscate it," they said.
The police and capital administration officials rushed to the hospital and found the diplomats arguing over the hospital's refusal to keep the body in the mortuary for want of a death certificate and other documents.
"Senior officers of the police and concerned authorities were contacted who advised to take the body to a private hospital and keep it there until further orders," the sources said.
However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
the reluctant Russian diplomats said they were taking the body to the kidney centre in Rawalpindi.
The body was put in an ambulance with the mother and some Russian diplomats accompanying it.
But, according to the sources, the ambulance suddenly changed directions and instead of going to Rawalpindi headed for the diplomatic enclave at a very high speed.
The police gave it a chase but had to stop when it entered the Russian embassy.
All "concerned high-ups" were informed who ordered the elite police to surround the Russian embassy, which they did.
But they were recalled after Moscow conveyed to Islamabad that the body would not be handed over and demanded that the police cordon should be lifted immediately, added the sources.