KARACHI: A BBC news report on Wednesday identified the names of two suspects in the Dr Imran Farooq murder case.
The report said that based on the documents received from Pakistani officials the two suspects were identified, for the first time, by the names of Mohsin Ali Syed and Muhammad Kashif Khan, who were staying on student visa in England.
The report added that the British Crown Prosecution Service had officially asked Pakistani authorities to search for the two most wanted suspects in the killing of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Imran Farooq.
The Pakistani suspects reportedly boarded a plane to Sri Lanka from London's Heathrow airport on the same day the MQM leader was killed.
It was alleged that Kashif Khan came to England just days before the murder of Dr Farooq.
Also, both suspects had enrolled in a college situated in eastern London, but only after a prolonged absence of 18 months the college had notified the home office in this regard.
Moreover, the British home office said it was currently not holding any investigations against the college.
The BBC report further said that the visa forms of the two suspects were verified by a Karachi-based businessman named Moazzam Ali Khan, who allegedly had remained in continuous contact during 2010 with the 52-year old suspect Iftikhar Husain, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, arrested by London police in 2013.
Hussain's arrest was the first carried out by London police in relation to Dr Farooq’s killing.
MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq, aged 50, was on his way home from work when he was attacked in Green Lane on Sept 16, 2010 outside his London home. A post-mortem examination found that he died from multiple stab wounds and blunt trauma to the head.
