PESHAWAR: Computer science graduate held for killing father
By Shafiq Ahmad
PESHAWAR, Aug 24: Police have claimed to have resolved the case of murder of a senior State Bank official and arrested his son and a man described by a senior official as a professional killer.
Mohammad Younus, deputy chief manager of SBP in Peshawar, was murdered on June 30 by his son, Faisal Mehmood, who had hired the professional killer, said Capital City Police Officer Habibur Rehman during a press conference at Police Headquarters here on Thursday afternoon.
“I killed my father because he used to rebuke me on petty issues … He used to torture me mentally,” Faisal Mehmood claimed while confessing the murder of Mohammad Younus, who belonged to the Kalabagh region of Abbottabad district.
“No. Faisal is lying. He secretly married a girl about one and half years ago, greatly disappointing his father,” said Mohammad Ashraf, deputy superintendent of police CIA, who headed the investigation team.
He also wanted to acquire his father’s property.
Faisal, who holds a master’s degree in computer science and worked with a private firm as an accountant, was brought to face mediapersons, said his wife also was graduate and belonged to an educated family.
Talking to Dawn after the press conference, Faisal said that he had planned to kill his father with one Asadullah. Then he hired Ikramullah and Irfan, all residents of the Regi area and promised to pay them Rs800,000.
He paid the killer Rs75,000 in advance, gave him a pistol and a silencer, Mr Faisal said.
“I regret my act but I cannot undo it,” said pale Faisal with tears in his eyes.
Faisal had been living with his father near the Sunehri Masjid Road. Their family lived in Abbottabad, said CCPO during the press conference.
After killing Mohammad Younus, the assassins had thrown his body on the G.T. Road near Pabbi in Nowshera district.
Later on July 4, Faisal filed a report about his missing father in the West-Cantt police station.
Ajmal, his friends Saeed Khan and Haji Manan were informed about the murder by the hired killers and they started blackmailing Faisal.
Faisal had paid over Rs1.2 millions to the assassins and blackmailers. “We have arrested Ikramullah, Asadullah, Saeed Khan, Haji Manan and Faisal. While efforts are on to net two other persons - Ali and Ajmal,” a CIA official said.
