ISLAMABAD, June 7: Inspector General of Islamabad Police Wajid Durrani on Tuesday claimed that the assassins of slain minorities’ affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti had been traced and efforts were in progress to arrest them.

Talking to media at a ceremony of bulldozing pressure horns at Traffic Office, the IGP said that the killers managed to escape abroad and the investigators were trying to bring them back with help of Interpol.

The IGP said they were hired assassins.

Replying to a question, he said that personal enmity seemed to be the motive for the murder.

Police sources close to the investigation told Dawn that the two alleged killers were on the list of suspected killers. After executing their plan they flew to Malaysia the same day.