MQM leader Imran Farooq killed in London: reports,

Sky quoted police as saying that officers found the 50-year-old with multiple stab wounds. He was confirmed dead at the scene.

LONDON: British media reports say a Pakistani politician has been killed outside his home in London.

BBC and Sky News quote a police spokesman as saying that Imran Farooq, a member of Pakistan’s MQM party, was stabbed to death Thursday.

Sky quoted police as saying that officers found the 50-year-old with multiple stab wounds. He was confirmed dead at the scene.

Metropolitan Police could not be immediately reached to comment on the reports. – AP

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MQM leader Imran Farooq assassinated in London

LONDON: Senior MQM leader Dr. Imran Farooq has been stabbed to death in Mill Hills locality in London, Geo News reported.

According to reports so far reached here, he was attacked by an unidentified assailant outside his house in London while he was back home after a regular walk.

As per hospital sources, Dr. Imran Farooq was hurried to hospital after being seriously wounded but on arrival at hospital, doctors confirmed his death.

MQM sources have also confirmed murder of Dr. Imran Farooq in London, adding that Quaid Altaf Hussain has issued party workers directives of extending condolence with his family members at his native residence in Karachi.

London Police have cordoned off Mill Hills locality and are engaged in collection of evidences for investigation from assassination site, sources said.

It may be mentioned that Dr. Imran Farooq has remained associated with Altaf Hussain and MQM since establishment of party. Besides, he has served as Convener and Deputy Convener MQM for a long time. (geo.tv)

Imran Farooq stabbed to death

Convener of MQM Rabita committee killed in London; 10-day mourning announced

What was supposed to be the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)’s most celebrated day, turned out to be a day of shock and mourning.

Senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi (MQM) Movement, and Convener of the party’s Rabita Committee, Dr Imran Farooq was murdered in a knife attack in the Edgware Road area of London late on Thursday night.

The details of the incident were not immediately clear – he was reportedly taken in injured condition to the hospital, where doctors confirmed his death. Reports suggested that he was attacked while entering his apartment building in London, and that the incident could have been an attempted mugging. MQM sources said that they are in touch with the London police and are still gathering details.

An emergency sitting of the MQM Rabita Committee had been called late in the night simultaneously in London in Karachi, following which senior leaders of the MQM, including Farooq Sattar, visited Imran Farooq’s residence in Karachi to express solidarity and comfort his family. Emotional scenes were witnessed at the slain leader’s house, with his parents and party associates unwilling to control their grief. Doctor Imran Farooq was also the only person to hold the post of Convener of the MQM Rabita Committee since the party’s inception.

All celebrations for MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s birthday, which were already under way, were cancelled. MQM activists that had gathered at the party headquarters, Nine-Zero, were asked to return home.

Farooq was a pioneering leader of the MQM, and had been a part of it since it was a student body by the name of the All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APSMO). He was MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s closest confidant, and handled the party’s affairs in the country after Hussain went into exile, as well as during the 1992 operation by security forces in Karachi against the MQM. It was at this time that Dr Imran Farooq also went into hiding to resurface in London in 1999, where he  had been residing since. He married in 2004.

According to reports, the body will be brought back to Karachi for burial.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2010.

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