ISLAMABAD:
Chaudhry Nisar has claimed to local media sources that the British government did not make a formal request for extraditing the suspects of MQM leader Imran Farooq’s murder, adding that if they had made that request, Pakistan would have thought about it.
Farooq was murdered near his London residence on September 16, 2010. He had gone into hiding in 1992 after a crackdown was launched against the MQM in Karachi.
A visiting Scotland Yard team is currently interrogating the murder suspects in Islamabad, an interior ministry official said. “The two-member team has already concluded questioning Moazzam Ali Khan.”
Moazzam, the prime suspect, was arrested from his house in Karachi’s Federal B Area in April. He was allegedly responsible for arranging visas, tickets and accommodation in England for Farooq’s two suspected killers.
When Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar was asked during a recent press briefing if there was a possibility of handing over the suspects to the British police, he had said Pakistan was interrogating the suspects as well and would share the findings with the London police. “It’s a reciprocal approach, as well as an international obligation for us to cooperate with them.”