Call made from KW&SB 12 minutes after Imran Farooq’s killing

KARACHI: The questions of British investigators required to be answered by Pakistani officials with regard to the gruesome murder of MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq in London include details of a landline telephone number of the office of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KW&SB).

A call was made from this number to the killers in the same locality in London on mobile phone exactly 12 minutes after the incident. According to sources, the caller talked for four minutes and 22 seconds through the telephone having international roaming facility.

The details furnished with Pakistani officials by the Scotland Yard police say exactly 12 minutes after the murder of Dr Imran Farooq, a call was made from Karachi through phone number 009221-36947016 to another Karachi mobile phone number 0300-8252044 at 1739 hours and the murderer was instructed about his next step, including going into hiding.

Officials say the call was made from the number which is being used by the KW&SB in North Karachi. The number was allotted to the same office by the PTCL.The British investigation agency had been furnished details about the number, including caller’s identity who has been arrested. The Karachi Police have made sufficient headway in the case but details are being kept close to chest.