Chaudhry Aslam murder: DNA evidence sent to Islamabad for investigation

Investigation team questions employees at home and office of late SP Chaudhry Aslam Khan.

KARACHI: Police are questioning employees at the home and office of late SP Chaudhry Aslam Khan, the head of the Crime Investigation Department (CID), as part of an investigation into his death, Express News reported Sunday.

Evidence that was collected from the scene, including DNA samples, were sent to a forensic laboratory in Islamabad for analysis.

Aslam and his two guards were killed on January 9 when a suspected suicide bomber – later identified as Naeemullah – drove an explosives-laden vehicle into his car on Lyrai Expressway, in Karachi’s Essa Nagri neighbourhood.

The police had nominated Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah and his spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid in the FIR for the bombing that killed Aslam.

On January 11, senior police officials – including Sindh Police Chief Shahid Nadeem Balocha and CID AIG Iqbal Mehmood – had visited the crime scene and examined the reports of forensic experts.

A highly credible source in the Sindh police had said that a special team of the Military Intelligence (MI) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) were helping with the investigation.

“The FIA also collected the data of phone calls made from the Essa Nagri neighbourhood and members of Chaudhry Aslam’s team to find out the possible involvement of any TTP sympathiser in the police force,” he had added.

He had said that the attack showed that there were black sheep in the police force, who had tipped off the militants about Chaudhry Aslam’s routes.

The suspect attacker, Naeemullah, was a resident of Qasba Colony, Karachi, and his father, Rafiullah, is a prayer leader at a mosque and has much influence in the area, sources said. Rafiullah and half a dozen family members and friends of the attacker have been detained for questioning.

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