ISLAMABAD – The prosecution and Defense Counsels on Friday completed thearguments over summoning all foreign witnesses in a case, pertaining tothe murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Imran Farooqwhich was being prosecuted at an Anti Terrorism Court (ATC).
In previous hearing the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had pleaded theATC for summoning all theforeign witnesses of the case.
ATC on Friday resumed the hearing and summoned for prosecution witnessesfor the next dateof hearing.
The ATC judge Shahrukh Arjumand has fixed the next date of hearing asDecember 13 for finalizingthe arguments after which the foreign witnesses would be summoned forexpediting the trial.
Three accused Khalid Shamim, Syed Mohsin Ali and Moazzam Ali had beenindicted in the case whilefour others were declared proclaimed offenders.
Two of the suspects, Khalid Shamim and Syed Mohsin Ali have alreadyrecorded their confessionalstatements before a magistrate, alleging that the slain MQM leader waskilled because he was a “potentthreat to the leadership of MQM”.
Shamim confessed that Farooq’s murder was allegedly a ‘birthday gift’ forthe MQM founder, whileSyed Mohsin stated that he took part in the crime because he was promised aposition in the MQM’sLondon Secretariat.
Imran Farooq was murdered outside his house in London on September 16, 2010.