Summary Suspects Moazzam Ali, Khalid Shamim and Mohsin Ali were presented in Judge Kausar Zaidi's court.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – While hearing the Imran Farooq murder case on Monday, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad handed over three suspects to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on seven-day physical remand, Dunya News reported.
Suspects Moazzam Ali, Khalid Shamim and Mohsin Ali were presented in Judge Kausar Zaidi‘s court amid tight security.
During the case proceedings, FIA officials sought ten-day remand of the accused but the court granted seven-day physical remand and directed the agency to present them on December 14 after completion of interrogation process.
Khalid Shamim and Mohsin Ali in were detained by the Frontier Constabulary (FC) in June this year at a border crossing in southwestern Balochistan province as they entered the country from Afghanistan. They were later handed over to the FIA.
British detectives said last May they want to question Ali and another man, Muhammad Kashif Khan Kamran, about the attack. Both were in Britain in the period leading up to it and left hours afterwards.
Earlier on Saturday, the Federal Investigation Agency s counter-terrorism wing in Islamabad registered a case against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain and other party leaders in the murder of former MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq.
Others nominated in the case include Mohammad Anwar, Iftikhar Hussain, Moazzam Ali Khan, Kashif Khan Kamran, Syed Mohsin Ali and Khalid Shamim. The case has been registered under sections 302, 34, 109, 120B of the Pakistan Penal Code and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Imran Farooq, 50, a founding member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was stabbed and beaten to death in Edgware, northwest London, as he returned home from work in September 2010.
Farooq claimed asylum in Britain in 1999. He was wanted in Pakistan over scores of charges including torture and murder related to the MQM‘s activities, but always claimed the accusations were politically motivated.
He had twice been elected an MP in Pakistan, but went into hiding in 1992 when the government ordered a military crackdown against party activists in Karachi.
The MQM has strongly denied any claim that the killing of Farooq was linked to an internal dispute.
