Nisar awards officials for nabbing Fahad murder case prime suspect

Raja Arshad Mehmood was arrested at Torkham border

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Khan on Tuesday awarded two officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for apprehending the prime suspect in the Fahad Malik murder case.

Praising the FIA's Shafiq Azam and Khalid Khan for their exemplary performance and commitment to service, Nisar awarded them Rs100,000 each.

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Both, Azam and Khan were posted at the Torkham border when they identified and arrested Raja Arshad Mehmood as he tried to flee to Afghanistan on forged travel documents.

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"Mehmood had been hiding in Khyber Agency for more than a week after fleeing Islamabad on August 15," a senior official in Khyber Agency told The Express Tribune requesting not to be named. "On Sunday night, when he submitted his passport and other travelling documents to a Federal Investigation Agency official, he was taken into custody and later handed over to the political administration in Jamrud," he said.

“We had intelligence information that the suspect may try to flee the country. We also confirmed it from the interior ministry and arrested the suspect on the basis of the tip-off,” he added.



Confirming Mehmood’s arrest, an official in the interior ministry on Sunday said that the suspect was later shifted to a lockup in Landi Kotal and he will soon be taken to Islamabad.

Fahad, the nephew of former Senate chairman Mohammedmian Soomro, was gunned down in F-10/3 on August 15. Fahad’s uncle Malik Tariq Ayub was also injured in the attack.

According to the police, Fahad died of bullet wounds. He was hit by four bullets in an exchange of fire between two rival groups — one led by Raja Asad and the other by Hussain Malik.