FIA fails to submit challan in Imran Farooq murder case
The court strictly directed the officials to submit challan in next proceeding.
ISLAMABAD (Dunys News) – Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday has failed to submit chllan in Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Imran Farooq murder case.
Hearing the case, anti-terrorism court (ATC) judge Shah Rukh Arjumand expressed resentment over not presenting the case challan due to which indictment of the suspects delayed.
The court strictly directed the officials to submit challan in next proceeding and extended the judicial remand of the suspects till January 10.
Khalid Shamim, Moazzam Ali and Mohsin Ali are nominated suspects in the case. On December 31st of the previous year, Shamim and Mohsin Ali had confessed to the crime in front of the judicial magistrate in Pakistan.
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Shamim had admitted that a key MQM personality wanted to get Farooq out of his way. He said that the directives to assassinate Farooq came from London.
Farooq, 50, a founding member of MQM was killed in a knife attack in Edgware, northwest London in September 2010.
He claimed asylum in Britain in 1999 and was wanted in Pakistan over different charges including torture and murder 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.
