KARACHI: DNA of suspect’s ‘kin’ negative: Nishtar Park blast
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, May 19: The results of DNA test carried out to establish the relationship between the person whose severed head was found from Nishtar Park and the two brothers, who had contacted the police suspecting that the severed head resembled their missing brother, are found negative.
Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah told Dawn on Friday that DNA test results turned out negative brushing aside the suspicion that the person was the missing brother of Riasat Khan and Rauf Khan.
A few weeks back, Riasat Khan, an employee of the Airport Security Force, and Rauf Khan contacted the police reporting disappearance of their brother Amjad Khan since April 11.
On suspicion, their blood samples were taken and sent to Islamabad for DNA test to establish their relationship with the person whose head was found from Nishtar Park on April 11 after the bomb blast.
Meanwhile, the family members of Riasat and Rauf were advised by the police to leave the city and return to their native town in Abbottabad, sources privy to the family said.
TRIBUNAL: The Inquiry Tribunal of the Nishtar Park blast incident, headed by Justice Rahmat Hussain Jafferi, has issued the directives to the police officers concerned to apprise the tribunal with all the facts and investigations and produce all the relevant record, adds PPI.
According to an official handout issued on Friday, instructions have also been issued instructions to its registrar to inform parties, groups concerned as well as general public to appear before the tribunal for recording their statements and produce any paper, photograph, video footage or any other material which could help the tribunal on or before May 27 from 11am to 3pm.
In this regard the Registrar could be approached through correspondence at his office at the High Court of Sindh, and at e-mail address tribnishter@sindhhighcourt.gov.pk. Further details are available at the link page www.sindhhighcourt.gov.pk
The tribunal was constituted by Sindh government vide notification dated 20th April 2006.
