October 03, 2007	Wednesday	Ramazan 20, 1428

PESHAWAR, Oct 2: The city police chief said on Tuesday that he suspected the involvement of RAW and Mossad in the killing of three Chinese nationals here two-and-a-half months ago and claimed to have arrested three suspects in the case.

“The killers were paid Rs6.50 million by enemies in neighbouring Afghanistan. We suspect involvement of RAW and Mossad who are active there,” said the Chief of Capital City Police, Abdul Majeed Marwat.

Addressing a news conference at the Police Lines on Tuesday, he said three people had been arrested in connection with the killings of three Chinese citizens in an auto-rickshaw workshop in the Khazana locality on July 8.

The arrested suspects have been identified as Sameen Khan, son of Gul Mohammad, of Mian Killey Michni; Jehangir Khan, son of Izzat Khan, of Pir Bala, Peshawar; and Ali Gohar, son of Tariq, of Matta Mughalkhel, Charsadda, presently residing in Darazgai in Peshawar.

He said that the Chinese embassy in Islamabad had been asked to call to Pakistan an injured Chinese who had survived the attack to identify the suspects.

One of the suspects, Ali Gohar, said he had been falsely implicated in the case.

He rejected the police claim that the car used by the killers was owned by him.

“I had sold the car two months back. I don’t know the arrested men,” he told reporters.

Accompanied by SSP Operations Mohammad Tahir Khan, the CCP said the police had also seized two cars from their possession.