FIA to issue red warrants of three key suspects in Imran Farooq murder

Interior ministry allows FIA to contact Interpol for the arrest of suspects in UK

In a major development in the murder case of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Imran Farooq, the interior ministry has allowed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to issue red warrants for three key suspects, currently residing in the United Kingdom (UK).

The FIA will contact the Interpol while all necessary documentation has already been prepared to arrest Iftikhar Hussain, Kashif Kamran and Mohammad Anwar, Express News reported on Friday.

All three former MQM members have already been grilled by the Scotland Yard.

Last year, the FIA registered a case against MQM chief Altaf Hussain and other party leaders for their alleged involvement in the murder.



Dr Farooq had been stabbed and bludgeoned to death near his apartment in London’s Edgware neighbourhood in September, 2010.

Mohsin Ali, Moazzam Ali and Khalid Shamim are the other three suspects being tried in an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad. The suspects are currently imprisoned at the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi.

Shamim and Mohsin have already recorded their confessional statements before a judicial magistrate, alleging that Dr Farooq was killed since he was a “potent threat to the MQM leadership” and the murder was supposed to be a ‘birthday gift’ for Altaf Hussain.