Investigation reveals Ch Aslam was betrayed by bodyguard

KARACHI: Investigators probing the death of Superintendant of Police (SP) Muhammad Aslam Khan aka Chaudhry Aslam of the Crime Investigation Department (CID) revealed the officer’s own driver-cum-bodyguard was involved in his murder, Geo News reported.

Chaudhry Aslam was martyred in 2014 when his convoy was attacked using an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted in a vehicle on the Lyari Expressway. According to then SP Muqadas Haider, “the explosion was so powerful that the vehicle’s wreckage was thrown some 20 to 30 feet away from the site of the explosion”.

Suspects being held by the CTD revealed that Kamran, who was at the time behind the wheel of Aslam’s pickup truck, was involved in the attack and was in fact, a member of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba, which later reinvented itself as Ahle-Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat (AWSJ).

Kamran gave information regarding Aslam’s movement to his killers including Naeem Bukhari, Karachi chief of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). Suspects in the case in police custody revealed that police constable Kamran helped in conducting reconnaissance for the murder.

Kamran gave information about Aslam to Imran Bhatti, a police informant who was later arrested by the Rangers, the suspects revealed.The suicide bomber was called by Imran Bhatti from South Waziristan, revealed Qari Javed, Zafar Saeen, Wazir and Hasan alias Shah Jee during interrogations.