Re: Rangers raid on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ( PTI ) office in Karachi, 7 workers arrested
Off Topic: Why MQM and Altaf never demanded for Imran Farooq killers to be arrested ? ;) It's today published in UK newspaper that Rahman Malik (on instructions of altaf) requested Lord Nazir to stop zulfiqar mirza to meet police. I can provide you the source as well if you insist --- the newspaper is right beside my pillow
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brilTek
You mean this ?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...o-block-evidence-in-murder-investigation.html
[h=1]Pakistani minister 'asked British peer to block evidence in murder investigation'[/h] [h=2]A senior Pakistani government minister tried to prevent key evidence being presented to Metropolitan Police detectives investigating the murder of a politician, according to a British peer.[/h]
Pakistani Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Secretary-General Imran Farooq Photo: GETTY
By
Rob Crilly, Islamabad
9:00PM GMT 01 Dec 2011
Rehman Malik,
Pakistan’s interior minister, telephoned Lord Ahmed allegedly asking him not take a key witness to meet police for fear his evidence would harm the country’s coalition government.
Imran Farooq, a senior figure in the MQM party, was stabbed to death outside his London home in September last year. He had lived in Britain since 1999 and suspicion immediately centred on rivals within his own party, which is known for the thuggish methods it uses in Karachi.
One man has been arrested on suspicion of murder but police are still hunting a man seen at the scene, as well as a network of accomplices.
The investigation could be kick-started with the new evidence from Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, a member of Mr Malik’s own Pakistan People’s Party, who was, until recently, the home minister in Karachi.
He is understood to have brought details of telephone intercepts relating to a plot to kill Dr Farooq, implicating figures within the MQM.
Lord Ahmed, Dr Mirza’s host in Britain claimed he had received a call “out of the blue” from Mr Malik on the night before they had been due to meet detectives, asking him not to meet police for fear the evidence would poison relations between the parties. “I told him I was a member of the House of Lords and he could not tell me not to do my job,” Lord Ahmed said.
The peer and Dr Mirza were attacked in the street last week as they arrived for a television interview in Manchester. Police are treating the incident as politically motivated.
The MQM is one partner in a fragile coalition that has governed Pakistan since 2008. Damaging revelations could precipitate a political crisis and bring down the government of Asif Ali Zardari.
Dr Farooq was a founding member of the party but in recent years had fallen out with MQM leader Attaf Hussain, who also lives in London.
Imtiaz Gul, director of the Centre for Research and Security Studies in Islamabad, said: “This case could be explosive, particularly if it implicates the MQM.
“And once again it seems as if you have politicians trying to protect themselves rather than doing what is best in the long-term interests of the state.”
It is understood that the new evidence, which has now been presented to Scotland Yard, includes details of telephone conversations between the two alleged assassins and an MQM fixer.
The two men allegedly used false identities and student visas to enter Britain.
Local media reported they had been detained in Karachi in August but Pakistani authorities deny they were ever arrested. Other intercepts allegedly detail conversations saying that they were to be killed on their return to Pakistan.
Calls to Mr Malik’s office were not returned.
However, a senior government official played down any suggestion of interference in the murder hunt.
“It is not possible to interfere with an investigation in an independent country like that,” he said.
A spokesman for the British High Commission in Islamabad, said: “We are happy with the level of co-operation from the Pakistani authorities in this case
