Mar 31, 2015
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Sindh ordered to form joint team to interrogate Saulat Mirza
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Government has ordered the Sindh Home Department to constitute a join team to interrogate Saulat Mirza, a death row inmate and former worker of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
According to sources, after the approval from Federal Interior Secretary, a letter was dispatched to the Sindh Home Department directing it to form a joint interrogation team with a task to grill Saulat Mirza.
It has been ordered that members from law enforcing institutions as well as intelligence agencies be included in the interrogation team.
The Federal government has also directed the Sindh Home Department to also investigate into the video statement of Saulat Mirza from Mach prison in Balochistan hours before his scheduled execution on March 19.
In the video message Mirza had leveled grave allegations against MQM chief Altaf Hussain and its other key leaders.
A copy of the letter from Federal government to Sindh Home Department has been forwarded to Balochistan Home Department.
A day earlier, Saulat Mirza’s wife demanded of the government to investigate her husband’s video statement of March 19.
She claimed that Saulat Mirza remained in contact with MQM Chief Altaf Hussain just before his arrest in the assassination case of MD KESC, Shahid Hamid.
Courtesy www.thenews.com.pk