KARACHI: Police have an**unced the arrest of a hitman of a political party allegedly involved in the murder ofMuttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker Manzar Imam, who was killed in 2013.
SSP Pir Mohammad Shah of West Division told The News on Wednesday that the suspect, identified as Ashfaq alias Chief, was captured in a raid in the Peerabad area of Orangi Town. A Kalashnikov was said to have been found on him.
During the initial interrogation, the suspect admitted to murdering MPA Imam at the behest of Asfar Hussain. The 43-year-old legislator had been shot dead along with two Police guards and a driver in Orangi Town on January 17, 2013.
The suspected hitman said he gunned down nine people in 2013. He also admitted abducting and killing two members of the Pakhtun community in the Star Ground of Orangi Town in 2011. During the same year, he allegedly shot dead a member of his own unit, Sadaqat Hussain Jafri, in Iqbal Market on the order of Afsar Hussain.A year before that, Ashfaq said he killed the driver and a conductor of a minibus.
09-22-2016, 06:01 AM
Police claim arresting killer of MQM MPA Manzar Imam
العرض العادي
