GUJRAT: Police on Friday claimed to have arrested the suspects involved in a blind murder who were hired by a Pakistani settled in the US to kill a resident of Badhu Kalis village in Lalamusa Sadar police area on April 22.

Police have arrested three suspects involved in the case; however, the mastermind is yet to be arrested as he is abroad.

District Police Officer Rommel Akram told Dawn a team was constituted to resolve the murder mystery of Qasim Ali. With the help of the latest scientific technology, the team resolved the mystery and arrested the suspects.

He said the suspects Aurangzaib Jhendewali, Gulzar Ahmed Shahabdiwal and Muhammad Suleiman of Badhu Kalis had confessed to committing the murder. They told the police that they had been hired against Rs0.5m by the main suspect, Nasir, son of Niyamat Ali, from America to kill Qasim. They said slain Qasim had scuffled with Nasir during his visit to the village in April last.

As soon Nasir went back to America, he hired assassins and sent his brother, Muhammad Asif, along with the assassins to kill Qasim on April 22, the DPO said and added that the police had recovered two pistols and as many rifles and a 125cc motorbike used in the crime by the suspects.

A large number of the suspects involved in different murder cases of Gujrat district have fled to other countries, mainly to Europe and the Middle East, and the police have been unable to bring them back due to limited resources as well as complicated legal procedures.

Meanwhile, the police have failed to arrest the suspects involved in the murder case of two teenage brothers in Raju Bhand village of Dinga police. The boys were killed over an old rivalry last Monday.

The suspects in yet another murder case of a youth who was stabbed to death in a barber ‘s shop of Gurali village in Sadar Gujrat police three days ago are also yet to be arrested.

Published in Dawn, August 18th, 2018