ISLAMABAD: A two-member Scotland Yard team arrived here on Monday to interrogate a key suspect in the Dr Imran Farooq murder case.

An Interior Ministry spokesman said that earlier reports about the arrival and presence of a six- or seven-member team of London Metropolitan Police were misleading and regretted that such reports were spread despite repeated explanations by the ministry.

He said the ministry would keep the media informed about every development in the case and asked it to refrain from publishing unverified reports.

The suspect to be quizzed was arrested from Azizabad in Karachi in April. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan while disclosing the arrest last week had avoided naming the man, but it was clear he was referring to Moazzam Ali – a Karachi-based businessman.

Mr Ali is accused of having arranged visas and tickets for the two key suspects – Mohsin Ali Syed and Mohammad Kashif Khan Kamran – in the case.

Mohsin and Kamran, wanted by the British authorities, had left the United Kingdom hours after the murder of Dr Imran Farooq on Sept 16, 2010.

Published in Dawn, June 30th, 2015

On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play