Imran Farooq case: UK police seal MQM bank accounts, contact Pakistan over suspects
MQM leader Imran Farooq was stabbed outside his home in Edgware, London in 2010.
LONDON (Dunya News) – The UK police has sought Pakistan’s help in tracing out two suspects believed to be involved in the murder of MQM senior leader Imran Farooq while the metropolitan police sealed several bank accounts of MQM for not paying taxes.
MQM leader Imran Farooq was stabbed outside his home in Edgware, London, close to the Pakistani political party s international HQ in 2010.
According to details, UK prosecutors have asked Pakistan to trace two suspects believed to have been involved in the 2010 murder of Imran Farooq.
Documents obtained by BBC Newsnight name the suspects as Mohsin Ali Syed and Mohammed Kashif Khan Kamran.
They are believed to be in Pakistani custody but not under formal arrest.
The investigation into Farooq s murder has seen more than 4,000 people interviewed, but so far the only person arrested in the case has been Iftikhar Hussain, the nephew of MQM s London-based leader Altaf Hussain.
Meanwhile, the UK metropolitan police have sealed several bank accounts of MQM while investigation over the non-payment of taxes have been formally launched.
