ISLAMABAD: The city police on Sunday claimed to have arrested a close aide of the principal suspect in the murder of former advocate general (AG) of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Sardar Khan.
The arrested suspect Fazl Ahmed had prepared a fake passport for the main suspect, Roohullah Khan, who is also his cousin. Later, Khan traveled to Afghanistan on the same passport to avoid arrest.
Ahmed, who was also his cousin Khan’s look-alike, had the prime suspect’s picture along with a passport with his particulars. Both suspects were residents of the same village.
Information provided by another suspect nabbed earlier in the case, Mamoor Khan, led to the arrest of Ahmed. During initial interrogation, Ahmed revealed that Khan had escaped to Afghanistan after returning from Dubai.
Earlier, on the information of his presence in Dubai, the city police had sought the help of International Police (InterPol) in Roohullah’s arrest.
However, he made an escape from United Arab Emirates before a team of investigators, led by Superintendent of Police SP (Investigations) Tahir Ayub, could get to him.
Sources told the police that Khan had got news of the police raid and escaped to Canada from Dubai. After the police party returned empty-handed, no clue of Khan’s whereabouts could be found for a long time since his escape from the UAE.
The arrested suspect Ahmed also spoke about providing Khan shelter in his village house near Pak-Afghan border before the latter finally fled to Afghanistan. Police registered a case against him under sections 420, 468, 419, 471, 216 of Pakistan Penal Code at the Aabpara Police station.
Muhammad Sardar Khan, the former AG, was murdered in sector G-12 in February last year while trying to escape from the possession of his kidnappers.
The victim was kidnapped with the help of a woman. He was fired upon by some unknown gunmen after he made a failed attempt to jump from the running car in which he was being transported.
Later, it was found that Khan, a resident of K-P, was behind the murder of the former AG. Supreme Court of Pakistan while taking a suo motu notice of the incident had directed the capital police to arrest him and produce him before the court.
Since then Khan was on the run. Recently, his whereabouts were traced in Afghanistan. The capital police has already forwarded a request to InterPol Kabul for ascertaining his whereabouts and subsequent arrest since the police could not get Afghan visa due to the ongoing war, police sources said.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 3rd, 2011.
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