DAILY NEWS

Friday, March 05, 1999
By Asad Ibne Hasan

US OFFICIAL REFUSE TO BUY KARACHI POLICE STORY

KARACHI, Feb. 5: US officials have ruled out the involvement of the tow Muttahida activists held by the police murder of five Union Texas employees, it has been learnt through highly reliable sources.

According to the sources Saeed Bharam and Salim Ganja who had been in the custody of police for the last couple of months have already been questioned by the US officials who were not convinced about their involvement in the case. The accused were presented before press reporters three days ago as the prime killers of the UTP officials. The DIG Karachi claimed that Salim conducted firing while Saeed was driving the car. The sources further claimed that the fingerprints found on one of the cars did not match with those of the accused persons.

The sketches prepared by CPLC on the basis of eye witness accounts just after the murders are also too dissimilar than the accused who have been nominated in the FIR.

It may be mentioned here that in the past too the police had claimed that one Arif Tu Tu, a Muttahida activist, was involved in the killings of two American diplomats at Sharae Faisal. However, an FBI team had ruled out the involvement of Arif in the killings.

In both the incidents, the US government has announced big rewards amounting to millions of dollars.