Imran Farooq Murder Case: Pakistan to give British police the access to prime suspects

Imran Farooq Murder Case: Pakistan to give British police the access to prime suspects
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Summary Scotland Yard will visit Pakistan soon; the investigation will be supervised by Chaudhry Nisar.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) -- Pakistan federal authorities have decided to give the British police the access to the two prime suspects in Dr Imran Farooq murder case. Scotland Yard will visit Pakistan soon and the investigation will be supervised by Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, Dunya News reported.
According to reports, Interior Minister has summoned records from the local investigation authorities.
The UK police had 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 Dr 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 who was later released on bail.

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