*ISLAMABAD – **MQM Founder Altaf Hussain may be extradited to Pakistan,sources have revealed.*
* The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA’s) Anti Terrorism Wing hascontacted Scotland Yard for the extradition of MQM founder Altaf Hussain,who was taken into custody earlier in the day in London, citing sources,ARY News reported on Tuesday.*
“FIA shared evidence with the Scotland Yard for MQM’s founder extradition”,sources said.
It was also learnt that a three-member team of FIA is ready to fly toLondon and was waiting for a ‘green signal’ from the Interior ministry,sources said.
It is worth mentioning here that more than 30 cases are registered againstMQM founder in Karachi and he has been declared an absconder in a score ofcases registered against him.
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Altaf Hussain was taken into custody by the Metropolitan Police from hisresidence in London.
Following the arrest, London Metropolitan Police had issued a statement,which reads as“A man has today, Tuesday, 11 June, been arrested inconnection with an investigation into a number of speeches made by anindividual associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Pakistan”.
The police statement says that the man, who is aged in his 60s, wasarrested at an address in north west London. He was arrested on suspicionof intentionally encouraging or assisting offences contrary to Section 44of the Serious Crime Act 2007.
