ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior has approved Federal Investigation Agency’s request for issuing red warrants for the London-based founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
The FIA, a couple of days ago, had requested the Interior Ministry to issue red warrants for the MQM supremo and bring him back to the country through Interpol.
The ministry had reportedly received a request from FIA seeking MQM supremo’s arrest through Interpol in the Imran Farooq murder case.
The MQM chief is wanted in several cases in Pakistan, including those of terrorism-related offences.
Farooq, 50, a founding member of the MQM, was stabbed and beaten to death in Edgware, north-west London, as he returned home from work on September 16, 2010.
Farooq was a close confidant of MQM founder Altaf Hussain and a senior party leader when he fled the country in 1992.
He was living in North London after claiming political asylum and had reportedly later become an inactive member of the party, which has also recently been the focus of a money laundering investigation in the UK.
However, Scotland Yard refused to reopen the investigation into the money laundering inquiry involving the MQM-London chief few days earlier.
Scotland Yard said that it will not reopen the case unless Pakistan provides credible and compelling new evidence along with its appeal to the police here requesting a reinvestigation.
London Metropolitan police last year in a statement provided the progress in the investigation into the murder.
