BBC NEWS: Pakistan's MQM 'received Indian funding'
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http://www.dawn.com/news/1191574
MQM man’s statement ‘not UK police document’
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KARACHI: A statement attributed to senior Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Tariq Mir allegedly revealing that the MQM had received Indian funding was not a document of London Metropolitan Police, according to a BBC-Urdu report posted on its website on Tuesday.
“After carefully examining the document we can confirm that it was not a police document,” London Metropolitan Police spokesman Alan Crockford told BBC in his brief response to their email with regard to the authenticity of Mr Mir’s alleged statement.
According to the BBC report, the spokesman also said that the police had carefully reviewed the alleged confessional statement published in different newspapers of Pakistan and found that it was not a document in the record of the London police.
On June 26, TV anchor Shahid Masood showed in his programme a six-page transcript of the alleged statement of Mr Mir to British authorities in 2012. He posted the document on Twitter and the next day i.e. on June 27 every news outlet in the country lifted the statement from the social media and aired its contents.
According to the alleged statement, Mr Mir, a former member of the MQM coordination committee, said that he had held meetings with officials of the Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing, and received 800,000 pounds per annum from them, sent “people to India for weapon training” and, above all, Muttahida chief Altaf Hussain knew about it.
The said statement came a few days after freelance British journalist Owen Bennett-Jones claimed in a report posted on the website of the BBC News that an unnamed Pakistani authoritative source had informed him that two leaders of the MQM had told British investigators that they had been receiving funds from the Indian government.
Also on Tuesday, anchor Dr Masood showed the title page of another document, an alleged police interview of one Sarfaraz Ahmed Merchant in his TV programme and later posted it online. Mr Merchant is not a member of the MQM but he also was facing money-laundering investigation and was arrested in 2013. He is currently on police bail.
Apparently, he released the document to substantiate the alleged statement of Mr Mir, as the last paragraph of Mr Merchant’s alleged interview with British police reads: “Interviews under caution were conducted with Tariq MIR and Mohammad ANWAR in 2012 in relation to a separate investigation. During the interviews both Mr MIR and Mr ANWAR stated that MQM was receiving funding from the Indian government.”
However, when former Pakistan ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani asked him on Twitter whether the document had been verified and acknowledged by the Metropolitan Police, Dr Masood replied: “BBC should be asked about the proofs as they aired the documentary. I just shared, what they mentioned!”
Meanwhile, the MQM said in a statement that the media trial of the party should be stopped after the clarification of the London police. It said that the media and its political opponents should demonstrate responsibility and instead of wasting their energy on MQM pay attention to the serious problems being faced by the country.
Published in Dawn, July 1st, 2015
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'MQM leader's confessional documents not property of London police'
DAWN.COM — UPDATED about 12 hours ago
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After carefully investigating media reports in Pakistan pertaining to Tariq Mir’s confession, the police can confirm no such documents are part of its record, said a spokesman.– File
KARACHI: Documents suggesting a senior Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader had disclosed the party’s alleged links to India’s spy agency during an interview with British authorities are not property of the London Metropolitan Police, a spokesman confirmed to BBC Urdu.
In a clarification via email, Alan Crockford of the London Metropolitan Police told BBC Urdu that after carefully investigating media reports in Pakistan pertaining to Tariq Mir’s confession, the police can confirm no such documents are part of its record.
On Friday, documents purported to be property of the London police surfaced on social media, suggesting that MQM’s Tariq Mir had confessed in an interview that his party had New Delhi's support and that supremo Altaf Hussain received funding from India.
Take a look: India funding claims: Documents purport to reveal MQM leader's statement.
“Mr H was getting money from India. H got his money from different sources [blocked text],” the document reads.
Mir allegedly spoke to London police at the Edgware police station in May 2012, the document says, adding that he “attended voluntarily and was not under arrest”.
“The Indian government supported us because they thought it was good to support us [blocked text]. I don’t remember when I first met the Indians. I did meet them,” it reads, quoting an individual TM, believed to be Mir.
Three pages of text, some of it censored with what appears to be black ink, sent shockwaves across the country just days after a startling BBC report had made similar allegations citing an “authoritative Pakistani source.”
Know more: India provided funds to MQM, claims BBC report.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had directed the interior ministry to thoroughly investigate the claims made in the BBC report pertaining to the MQM receiving funding from India, and sought an early report in this regard.
Federal Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan had also held a meeting with British High Commissioner Philip Barton and has formally written to the UK government requesting Pakistani authorities’ access to key information in relation to the serious allegations levelled by the BBC against MQM.
Meanwhile, a London police team is currently in Islamabad to investigate key suspects in the Imran Farooq murder case.
MQM calls for an end to "media trial"
MQM Coordination Committee in a statement called for an end to the "media trial" that it claims has been going on against the party, after the response of Met police to the documents was released by BBC Urdu.
The MQM also asked "media and opponents" to show some responsibility and "focus on real and grave issues instead of wasting energies on the MQM", said the statement.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1191430/mqm-leaders-confessional-documents-not-property-of-london-police
DAWN.COM — UPDATED about 12 hours ago
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After carefully investigating media reports in Pakistan pertaining to Tariq Mir’s confession, the police can confirm no such documents are part of its record, said a spokesman.– File
KARACHI: Documents suggesting a senior Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader had disclosed the party’s alleged links to India’s spy agency during an interview with British authorities are not property of the London Metropolitan Police, a spokesman confirmed to BBC Urdu.
In a clarification via email, Alan Crockford of the London Metropolitan Police told BBC Urdu that after carefully investigating media reports in Pakistan pertaining to Tariq Mir’s confession, the police can confirm no such documents are part of its record.
On Friday, documents purported to be property of the London police surfaced on social media, suggesting that MQM’s Tariq Mir had confessed in an interview that his party had New Delhi's support and that supremo Altaf Hussain received funding from India.
Take a look: India funding claims: Documents purport to reveal MQM leader's statement.
“Mr H was getting money from India. H got his money from different sources [blocked text],” the document reads.
Mir allegedly spoke to London police at the Edgware police station in May 2012, the document says, adding that he “attended voluntarily and was not under arrest”.
“The Indian government supported us because they thought it was good to support us [blocked text]. I don’t remember when I first met the Indians. I did meet them,” it reads, quoting an individual TM, believed to be Mir.
Three pages of text, some of it censored with what appears to be black ink, sent shockwaves across the country just days after a startling BBC report had made similar allegations citing an “authoritative Pakistani source.”
Know more: India provided funds to MQM, claims BBC report.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had directed the interior ministry to thoroughly investigate the claims made in the BBC report pertaining to the MQM receiving funding from India, and sought an early report in this regard.
Federal Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan had also held a meeting with British High Commissioner Philip Barton and has formally written to the UK government requesting Pakistani authorities’ access to key information in relation to the serious allegations levelled by the BBC against MQM.
Meanwhile, a London police team is currently in Islamabad to investigate key suspects in the Imran Farooq murder case.
MQM calls for an end to "media trial"
MQM Coordination Committee in a statement called for an end to the "media trial" that it claims has been going on against the party, after the response of Met police to the documents was released by BBC Urdu.
The MQM also asked "media and opponents" to show some responsibility and "focus on real and grave issues instead of wasting energies on the MQM", said the statement.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1191430/mqm-leaders-confessional-documents-not-property-of-london-police
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can u prove in int community??? answer is no, this media trial will not you
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