Premier investigation authority Scotland Yard has said that it was in contact with authorities in Pakistan over Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Imran Farooq’s murder case, and was seeking to bring to justice the killers who assassinated Farooq on September 16, 2010, in London.
On the seventh death anniversary of the former MQM leader, the police told a private news channel that it was seeking to bring to justice, Mohsin Syed and Kashif Khan Kamran, who were in custody in Pakistan. Reportedly, Kamran had died in police custody while no official confirmation was available that Mohsin Syed, Khalid Shamim and Moazzam Ali Khan still remain in custody.
Many questions have been raised over British police’s failure to make progress in its inquiries.
The police authority said, “We continue to liaise with the Pakistani authorities in relation to a separate investigation into the murder of Dr Imran Farooq, and remain committed to bringing those responsible to justice.”
The police met Shumaila Imran Farooq and her sons on Thursday to assure her that the police will not close the file of Farooq’s murder case and that the killers will be brought to justice at any cost.
MQM leader Farooq, aged 50, was on his way home from work on September 16, 2010, when he was murdered on Edgware Green Lane outside his London home, by Mohsin and Kamran who were outside his flat waiting for him.
A post-mortem examination disclosed that he died from multiple stab wounds and blunt trauma to the head through injuries caused by knives and bricks.
The MQM leader had claimed asylum in Britain in 1999 on grounds that he was persecuted in Pakistan. He was wanted in Pakistan on scores of charges, including torture and murder but always claimed that the accusations were politically motivated.
The slain Muttahida leader was twice elected as a lawmaker in Pakistan but went into hiding in 1992 when the government ordered a military crackdown against MQM activists in Karachi, and later resurfaced in London along the side of MQM London leader Altaf Hussain.