Accused in Imran murder case nominated in another case

‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath’ on Friday

KARACHI: The absconding accused in Imran Farooq murder case Kashif Khan Kamran was also nominated in another high profile murder case in Karachi, said Shahzeb Khanzada while presenting his analysis on Friday.

He said according to the investigation, Kashif Khan Kamran was a student of Dawood Engineering College in the Electronics Engineering Department. He was also a very active member of the APMSO, the students’ wing of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).

Kashif Khan Kamran was also nominated in the case of the murder of Dr Salim Chaudhry, the principal of Dawood Engineering College. According to police report, brother of Sindh Governor Ishratul Ebad, Amirul Ebad was also mentioned in the same case.

Giving analysis on Charsaddah attack, Shahzeb Khanzada said the links of the gory incident of the Baacha Khan University reached Afghanistan. Army Chief General Raheel Sharif shared the initial information about the incident with Afghan leadership and the head of the American Forces, General John F Campbell. He told them that the attack on the university was controlled from a place in Afghanistan. Shahzeb Khanzada said very special alert, issued by the interior ministry to the officials, according to which Omar Mansoor had sent Abbas Swati, Saifullah Afghani and some suicide attackers for attack on Charsaddah.

Shahzeb Khanzada said the PTA officials claimed that the Afghan mobile SIMS did work in Pakistan. They said the Afghan mobile signals reached Fata and border areas, which might be due to the mobile towers erected there. The mobile signals of the Afghan mobile network could not reach Charsaddah area. It was after the claim of the PTA there was a question as to how the terrorists were using the Afghan mobiles.

Analysing the corruption in Sindh, Shahzeb Khanzada said the PPP appeared double minded; on one hand the party was strengthening the provincial anti-corruption department but at the same time it was attempting to curtail powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The Sindh Anti-Corruption Department had prepared a list of absconding government functionaries and other accused. It was in connivance with the Sindh Anti-Corruption Department that hundreds of such absconding accused had not been arrested so far.

Analysing the attack on Pathankot, Shahzeb Khanzadaa said the chief of the United Jihad Council, Commander Syed Salahuddin, while addressing a press conference in Muzaffarbad, claimed responsibility of the attack on Pathankot. In the same press conference Syed Salahuddin vehemently criticised the government’s action against Jaish-e-Muhammad and Maulana Masood Azhar. It surprising that Syed Salahuddin is criticising the government while sitting in Pakistan.

Participating in the programme the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM Pervaiz Khattak said he did not have special information about the Charsaddah attack. He said that general information about the terrorist attacks were available, therefore, it was decided to close the schools in Peshawar and initiate search operation.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had already issued an SOP for the security of schools, colleges and universities to ensure their security. The government provided mobile phones and weapons to the educational institutions, which enabled them to convey quick information about any attack. He said it was impossible for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to provide police security to all educational institutions and added that there were 65,000 educational institutions while the number of policemen available in the province was 70,000. The chief minister appreciated the security guards of the Charsaddah University, who stopped the terrorists at the risk of their lives. The police had reached the place of the incident within 25 minutes. The police and security guards killed two of the terrorists. There could have been colossal damage had there been no security.

He pointed out that the vice-chancellor of the university had stopped the IG police from setting up a kiosk in the university. He said the vice- chancellor considered that the people would imagine attack on the university if the kiosk was attacked. The police mobiles, as a routine continued patrolling the university three to four times everyday.

There were sixty people responsible for security of the university, who countered the terrorists very bravely.

The KP CM said the Pak-Afghan borders should be sealed and funding of terrorists should be stopped. No one should be allowed to enter Pakistan without identification documents. He said the government had no writ in the tribal areas. The army had almost sealed the Pak-Afghan borders after the Operation Zarb-e-Azb. He said Pakistan should tell Afghanistan very bluntly to find some other way out if it could not stop attacks on Pakistan.

Pervaiz Khattak said Pakistan and Afghanistan should fight terrorism jointly. Both of the countries would be at a loss if they merely blamed each other. The attacks on the educational institutions were dragging the future of the country to disaster. There should be action against them in case Pakistanis were found involved in attacks in India. And if the Indians were suspected of attacks in Pakistan, there should be talks with India. He said Pakistan should frame a joint strategy with the help of the neighbouring countries. He informed that the people responsible for the jail break in Dera Ismail Khan had been punished.

Bureau chief of Geo News Karachi, while referring to Dr Salim Chaudhry’s murder case, said the name of Kashif Khan Kamran was there in the letter written to his family from the President House. He said the staff of the college had identified him as the murderer of Dr Salim Chaudhry after they saw his photo in the media. He said Kashif Khan Kamran had quarreled with Dr Salim Chaudhry in the year 2005 over not allowing the cooking of Haleem in the college. Dr Salim Chaudhry was killed after that incident.

According to the record of the police Kashif Khan Kamran went into hiding after the killing of Dr Salim Chaudhry on March 25, 2005, while the record of the college says Kashif Khan Kamran passed out of the college in the year 2007.

Regarding the implication of Amirul-Ebad, brother of Sindh governor, Fahim Siddiqi said Amirul Ebad is also a former student of Dawood Engineering College.

Dr Salim Chaudhry had sacked a lecturer of the college, after which Amirul Ebad had offered to get him appointed as vice-chancellor of the NED University.

Defence analyst Lt Gen (R) Amjad Shoaib, while commenting on Syed Jalaluddin said it was very regrettable that he claimed responsibility of attack on Pathankot. Salahuddin’s such claim had inflicted great loss to the Kashmir cause. There was no other way after it had decided to solve the issue through negotiation and then there remained no place for terrorism. He said the decision to wage Jihad was to be taken by the government and no individual could announce Jihad. India and the world community would take up the matter if he made the same claim anywhere else. Pakistan was also not in favour such claims by anyone. It was very clear policy of Pakistan that it would not let its territory used against any country.