Imran Farooq murder facilitator Muazam Ali handed over to Rangers for 90 days

KARACHI (Web Desk) – Muazam Ali Khan, a key facilitator in murder case of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Imran Farooq, has been handed over to Rangers for 90 days for further interrogation.

Earlier today Rangers had presented him before an anti-terrorism court in Karachi.

The suspect was arrested during Rangers’ raid in Azizabad area, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced yesterday.

The government has termed the arrest a major breakthrough in the high-profile murder case.

The interior minister told reporters that security agencies in Britain and Pakistan were cooperating in the investigation, hoping for a “quick progress” in the case now.

Security official said Muazam Ali was an immigration consultant accused of making travel arrangements for Farooq’s killers.

They said the suspect facilitated two other suspects, Mohsin Ali Syed and Kashif Khan Kamran, on instructions of Hammad Siddiqui, a former central leader of MQM’s Rabita Committee.

However, MQM leader Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan denied party’s association with Muazam Ali, saying that he had never been a worker.

Farooq, 50, a founding member of the MQM, was stabbed and beaten to death in Edgware, northwest London, as he returned home from work in September 2010. Farooq had claimed asylum in Britain in 1999.

He was twice elected an MPA in Pakistan, but went into hiding in 1992 when the government ordered a military crackdown against party activists in Karachi.