UK based MQMer got sentenced for money laundering

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Key MQM leader jailed in money-laundering probe in London

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Will appeal his conviction; papers seized from his house during June 2013 high-profile money-laundering raids; convicted for ‘false mortgage representation’


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Murtaza Ali Shah Sunday, March 02, 2014
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LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s London based Central Co-ordination Committee member Imbisat Malick has been jailed for 21 months in a case linked with the wider money-laundering investigation that originated during the murder investigation of Dr Imran Farooq, the former MQM senior leader killed on 16 September 2010.



Malick has worked at the MQM’s London Secretariat for several years and has risen to the ranks of the Rabita Committee member and has been seen attending all important meetings presided over by Altaf Hussain.



According to police sources, Malick was guilty of a mortgage fraud case at the Isleworth Crown Court in late December last year but was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment on 24 January this year.



Imbisat Malick’s house was raided for the first time when the Counter Terrorism Command Unit launched raids in June last year on several properties, including the North West London residence of the MQM leader Altaf Hussain. On 18 June, the counter terrorism command unit had started searches of two houses in North West London. Imbisat Malick’s house was raided after the searches were complete at both these two houses.



The News is aware that Imbisat Malick, of Northwood Middlesex, has been reported to the police on several occasions by a faction within the MQM but nothing was found on him.



MQM’s leadership is strongly of the view that some people within the party have been passing crucial information to the police and that Imbisat Malick has fallen a victim to that conflict within the party.



He is son-in-law of a London-based veteran MQM leader.



During a dawn raid, nearly two dozen Counter Terrorism Command Unit officers raided Malick’s house but failed to find a big amount. The police had served the Magistrate’s Warrants to search his house.



The police took away with them documents that showed that Malick had obtained mortgage on his house while being unemployed.


Tens of thousands of people get mortgage from UK banks every month giving false information about the sources of their income and the banks easily accept these explanations but in the case of Imbisat Malick the situation became complicated due to the high-profile investigation into Dr Imran Farooq murder.


The 42 year old has been extensively questioned about the wider money-laundering allegations against the MQM officials.



An MQM source from Karachi told The News that a few senior former officials of the MQM developed differences with Malick over business contracts in Karachi.



“The party’s internal differences are a very serious concern and many people are not even hiding their hatred for each other,” said the source.



It was alleged during the court proceedings that Malick had made ‘false representations’ to obtain mortgage - showing himself as employed and producing papers which showed his income as quite good, enabling him to qualify for the mortgage while his full-time commitment with the MQM meant that he only drew a token money, under £1,000 per month, from the party.



A court source told The News on Saturday that Imbisat Malick’s lawyers have decided to appeal his conviction. The source said that Malick would launch his appeal within a month, stressing that he has been convicted on wrong grounds.

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THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL(GEO/JANG NEWS)



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Judge, 10 others killed in Islamabad blasts, firing - DAWN.COM


Judge, 10 others killed in Islamabad blasts, firing
AFP and DAWN.COM

Police officers comb the area for attackers at the site of a bomb attack at the district court in Islamabad, March 3. — Reuters
Updated 2014-03-03 20:28:56
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ISLAMABAD: At least 11 people, including additional sessions judge Rafaqat Awan, were killed and 29 others wounded on Monday during a gun and bomb attack in a court in the capital city’s F-8 area, DawnNews reported.

Asad Mansoor, a spokesperson for the Ahrarul Hind which is a lesser-known splinter group of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), while talking to Dawn.com claimed that his group was responsible for today's court attack.

The group had recently parted ways with the TTP over holding of talks with the government.

He claimed that the court was targeted as the prevailing system in the country was un-Islamic which included the courts and its administration. He added that their struggle would continue till Sharia law was implemented in Pakistan.

According to police, two blasts took place inside the court's premises, one near the lawyers' chambers and the other outside another office.

Moreover, lawyers fled from their chambers seeking shelter from bullets as fear and panic gripped the premises.

Officers at the scene told AFP the incident began when a defendant was brought before the court and his associates tried to break him free.

Another senior-ranking police official said the incident could be a terror attack but nothing could be said with certainty as yet.

According to police authorities, militants entered the chambers of judge Rafaqat Awan and opened fire on him. Initial medical reports said that the judge was hit by three bullets.

The hearings of cases scheduled for the day were postponed.

Subsequently, police and special forces were deployed in the court and emergency was declared in hospitals.

The capital city is currently under high alert and the Red Zone was also sealed.

The head and feet of the alleged suicide attacker were found.

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Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani took notice of the incident and summoned interior secretary, inspector general (IG) and commissioner Islamabad in this regard.

Justice Jillani said that such attacks would not discourage the morale of lawyers and judges and also called for those behind the attack to be brought to justice.

Meanwhile in Lahore, lawyers of the Pakistan Bar Council announced a boycott of court proceedings.

Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Shahidullah Shahid denied the outlawed group's involvement in the attack.

Shahidullah Shahid said TTP condemned the attack on the court in Islamabad, adding that recent terror attacks should not be linked with the organisation.

The spokesman further said the outlawed organisation would not violate the ceasefire it had announced on Saturday.

Interior minister Nisar Ali Khan had responded to the Taliban announcement saying that the government had decided to halt air strikes against Taliban militants.

An FIR of the attack was lodged against unknown persons at the Maragalla police station.

Pakistan has been in the grip of a bloody homegrown Taliban insurgency since 2007 but attacks within the capital have been very rare in recent years




List of Taliban prisoners received, says Sami
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Maulana Samiul Haq. — File photo
Published 2014-03-03 15:02:33
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ISLAMABAD: Chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-S), Maulana Samiul Haq, who also head the Taliban negotiating committee said on Monday that the list of prisoners whom the Taliban want freed had been received and would soon be discussed, DawnNews reported.

Talking to media persons in the federal capital, Sami said the Taliban'sannouncement of a one-month cease fire should be taken as a blessing and all women, children and elderly in government captivity should be released.

He said the whole nation was united for peace talks and that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had shown political maturity over the issue. He also said that the government's negotiating committee had made efforts to end the deadlock existing between the government and the Taliban mediating committees.

He said the Taliban's condemnation of today's attack in Islamabad was a welcome gesture, adding that the approach of the group was also commendable.

Sami said public sentiment was taken into consideration by deciding to hold talks and these negotiations should reach their logical conclusion.

Maulana Sami also said that every attack should not be attributed to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), adding that the outlawed militant organisation would have to dissociate itself from all terror attacks taking place in the country.

He also said that enemies of the country would keep carrying out attacks to derail the negotiations and peace talks would have to be protected against internal and external conspiracies.

Sami said following the 9/11 attacks the decisions of a dictator had brought destruction to the country.

He further said that even the parliament had demanded a review of the enslaving policies.




its astonishing, that the killers of 60, 000 innocent pakistanis never been sentenced, & even been disscussed to be freed, even after accepting thier crimes, but here we are, just because of our political differences, celebreting a low level crimers sentencing in UK?
what kind of shamfull pakistanis we, are setting mass killers, free, negociating thier lists to be freed?

 

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2 year imprisonment ? Thats less. It should have been for life !