Rage: Police obtain CJ’s ‘to be assassin’s’ remand

Man betrayed in love behind threatening letters found in SC’s parking lot.

ISLAMABAD:

A betrayed-in-love husband wanted to punish his wife for leaving him and decided to use threats to the life of Chief Justice of Pakistan, President of Pakistan and other state leaders to appease his rage.

He was behind the letters found from the parking lot of the Supreme Court of Pakistan last month threatening that a certain group was planning to bomb the SC building and the President House, said Superintendent of Police (City) Capt (Retired) Illyas who was investigating the case.

The man has been identified as Muhammad Yousaf, a resident of Gujranwala, who wrote two such letters, one of which was found on the first of this month. Yousaf can face three to six years imprisonment if proven guilty.

The Secretariat Police obtained his physical remand for three days and are further investigating to ascertain if he was alone in his plan or had other accomplices.

The letter was allegedly written by one Aashi who had claimed that the assassination plan was being made at the house of one Fauzia Khan, a resident of Rawalpindi, said SP Illyas. Khan’s cell phone number was also given in the letter.

The police apprehended Khan and interrogated her for allegations mentioned in the letter. She maintained ignorance of the letter and the plan.

On further inquiry about her possible rivalry with anyone, she informed the police that the husband of one of her former housemaids, Aashi, from Gujranwala, had come looking for his wife and when she refused to give him information about her whereabouts he threatened her of grave consequences.

Khan said she had employed Aashi but she had left the job a month ago and started running her own  parlour. She said that Aashi had run away from her husband’s house for reasons not known.

Khan said she had since not heard from the couple and had forgotten the matter.

A police team was sent to Gujranwala to find out Aashi’s family and from there they reached Yousaf.

He was said to be in Islamabad to find Aashi where he was arrested by the police.

He divulged the complete details to the police and confessed of writing the letters. He said he wanted to avenge both his wife for leaving him and Khan for not cooperating with him.

He also told the police that Aashi was not the real name of his wife.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 16^th, 2011.