Dr Imran Farooq’s case: UK officials receive updates on two detained suspects

FC Balochistan chief calls interior minister and briefs him on the latest development

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities have shared with the United Kingdom details of the latest developments in the murder case of Dr Imran Farooq, a top leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) who was assassinated in London in 2010.

According to sources in the interior ministry, the British authorities established contact with Pakistan soon after Balochistan law enforcement agencies voiced suspicion that the men arrested in connection with Dr Imran Farooq’s murder case might have been working for a Karachi-based political party.



“The UK High Commission contacted us soon after arrests were made in Chaman,” said a senior official.

A statement issued by the interior ministry on Friday said Frontier Corps Balochistan’s Inspector General Major General Sher Afgan telephoned Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and briefed him on the latest developments in the Dr Farooq case.

The interior ministry official, however, revealed that the FC Balochistan chief told Nisar that the detained suspects had been in constant communication with Imran Farooq’s alleged killers and workers of a certain party.

A senior FC Balochistan told The Express Tribune that the interior ministry had directed the FC Balochistan to hand over the men, identified as Khalid Shamim and Mohsin Ali, either to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) or the Sindh Rangers for further investigation.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 19^th, 2015.