Dr Imran Farooq’s widow shares pain on 6th anniversary

LONDON: The wife of Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s slain leader Dr Imran Farooq has broken her silence stating that she goes through unbearable pain everyday as the killers of Dr Farooq have yet to face justice in the UK’s jurisdiction.

In a message on a social media website, the widow of Dr Imran Farooq and her sons (Wejdaan and Aalishaan) posted messages on the 6th anniversary of Dr Farooq expressing their heartache as well as their frustration over the fact that Dr Imran Farooq’s killers and plotters of the murder have not been brought to justice as wrangling between Pakistan and the UK continues over several politically-influenced issues.

Shumaila Nazar wrote: “There's no words to describe the pain we go through when you lose a loved one pray for my husband Dr Imran Farooq.”

Aalishaan and Wejdaan Farooq, sons of Dr Farooq, remembered their father in words and photographs showing him with them.

“I miss you abbu,” they wrote on the joint Twitter account used by Shumaila and sons.

Dr Farooq was stabbed to death outside his home in London on September 16, 2010 as he returned to work.

Alishaan wrote: I miss abbu tomorrow is his death anniversary please pray for my lovely abbu.”

Another message said: “Dad, your memories have become my heartbeats, which means i am thinking of you all the time, just to stay alive i miss you."

They also posted pictures of Dr Imran Farooq’s grave in Karachi. It's understood that Dr Farooq’s widow recently visited Karachi. This is the first time that Shumaila Imran Farooq has shared her pain publicly, she has so far made only one appearance and that was a month after her husband’s killing. At the headquarters of the Scotland Yard, she had appealed for the arrest of the killers.

Scotland Yard said in a statement that detectives from the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) investigating Dr Farooq's murder remain committed to finding those responsible.

“Since the murder of Dr Farooq outside his home in Green Lane, Edgware, London, shortly before 17:30hrs on Thursday, 16 September 2010, officers have spoken to 4,636 people, reviewed 7,801 documents, viewed 4,433 exhibits and followed up 2,443 lines of enquiry. Dr Farooq, who was 50 years old, was on his way home from work when he was attacked. He died as a result of multiple stab wounds and blunt trauma to the head. A five-and-a-half inch bladed kitchen knife and a house brick used in the attack were recovered at the scene. Officers have been in regular contact with the Pakistani authorities to gather evidence that could assist in bringing to justice the killers of Dr Imran Farooq. It is thought Dr Farooq's murder would have required careful planning and help from other people, some of whom may have provided assistance or information unwittingly. They have named two men as wanted in connection with the murder: Moshin Ali Syed, 31, (15.5.85) a Pakistani national who was in the UK between February 2010 and 16 September 2010; and Muhammad Kashif Khan Kamran, 37, (6.7.79) a Pakistani national who was in the UK between early September 2010 and 16 September 2010.”

Two of the nominated suspects, Mohsin Ali Syed and Kashif Khan Kamran, acquired British visa on the basis of their admission to the London Academy of Management Sciences in East London and were sponsored by Moazzam Ali Khan. Mohsin went to the UK in February 2010 and lived in a number of places in London and put Dr Farooq under watch. Kashif reached there in early September 2010 with the sole purpose of killing Dr Farooq. They left the UK on Sept 16, 2010 hours after the murder, for Sri Lanka before travelling to Karachi on Sept 19.

Mohsin, Khalid Shameem and Moazzam Ali Khan remain in police custody.

Scotland Yard has visited Pakistan many times but the deadlock continues as the UK doesn’t want to seek extradition of the central characters of the killing plot: Moazzam Ali Khan and Khalid Shameem, and wants only Mohsin Ali Syed, while Pakistan has said justice cannot be provided to the family of Dr Farooq if planners are not also prosecuted.