ISLAMABAD: A six-member Scotland Yard team investigating the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Imran Farooq arrived in Islamabad on Sunday.
The team headed by Stewart Michael consists of inspection experts and higher security officials who will further investigate the money laundering and Farooq murder cases.
According to the reports, the team will be briefed about the progress on the cases, statements of the suspected murderers Khalid Shamim, Moazzam Ali and Mohsin Ali and judicial proceedings on the cases.
Earlier, Scotland Yard contacted the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and asked it to provide evidence related to the Farooq murder case. The FIA presented an interim challan and death certificate of Farooq to the Scotland Yard team and declared Mohsin Ali as murderer and Moazzam Ali and Khalid Shamim his facilitators.
Investigation officer Shahzad Zafar said that Mohsin and Kashif Kamran stabbed Farooq to death.
On December 31, Shamim and Mohsin Ali ‘confessed’ to the crime in front of the judicial magistrate in Pakistan. Shamim ‘admitted’ that a key MQM figure wanted to get Farooq out of his way. He said that directives to assassinate Farooq came from London.
Farooq (50), a founding member of the MQM, was killed in a knife attack in Edgware, northwest London, in September 2010. He claimed asylum in Britain in 1999 because he was wanted in Pakistan in several cases involving torture and murder. He however always said that the accusations were politically motivated. He was twice elected member of the parliament in Pakistan before he went into hiding in 1992 when the government ordered a military crackdown on criminals in Karachi.
