ISLAMABAD: The trial for Imran Farooq’s murder case is slated to commence from May 12, and will be held in the premises of Adiala Jail due to security reasons.

The challan submitted in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was accepted today, after having been objected upon previously. The defence counsel will be provided a copy of the challan.

Khalid Shamim and Moazzam Ali are co-accused in the case, but were not presented before the presiding judge, Kausar Abbas Zaidi.

The London police had named Mohsin Ali Syed and Mohammad Kashif Khan Kamran as wanted men in connection with the murder as they were in the UK when Dr Farooq was murdered. They arrested the three men during the last five years but released them later without filing any charges.

However, it was widely reported that both Mohsin and Kamran had been taken into custody by Pakistani intelligence agents the moment they landed at Karachi airport in 2010.

The third suspect, Khalid Shamim, was allegedly taken into custody in January 2011 and a petition regarding his ‘illegal detention and going missing’ was filed by his wife in the Sindh High Court.

In March last year, Moazzam was arrested at his Azizabad house for facilitating the suspects in getting a British visa.

On June 18, 2015, the Frontier Corps claimed to have arrested Mohsin and Shamim in Chaman in Balochistan.

The FC claimed that the two were illegally entering Pakistan from Afghanistan.

On Dec 5, 2015 — the day Karachi went to the local government polls — the FIA registered a murder case against MQM chief Altaf Hussain, his nephew Iftikhar Hussain, Moazzam Ali Khan, Khalid Shamim, Kashif Khan Kamran and Syed Mohsin Ali.