Foreign Ministry contacted for arrest of suspect in Sweden – Tidning
KARACHI: The Sindh Police on Thursday, through competent authorities, contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad for the arrest of Khurram Nisar, who allegedly killed a police constable, Abdul Rehman, in DHA on Monday night.
Khurram Nisar holds dual citizenship and managed to board an international flight early Tuesday morning to flee to Sweden after committing the murder.
“We have written a letter to the Ministry of External Affairs,” South SSP Syed Asad Raza confirmed.
Raza, who is also the head of an investigation team formed by South-DIG Irfan Ali Baloch to hold a probe into the case, said they also wrote a letter to the Federal Investigation Agency to freeze the national identity card and Pakistani passport of the accused .
According to the content of the letter written to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Khurram Nisar is wanted in the murder case and he has recently escaped from Pakistan with his Swedish passport from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi by Turkish Airways.
The police directed the Ministry of External Affairs to make necessary correspondence with the Director (Europe-1) of the Ministry in Islamabad requesting to coordinate with the Pakistani Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, for legal assistance from local authorities for the arrest of the suspect and for his deportation to Pakistan on ” humanitarian grounds’ as he had absconded following the killing of a Sindh Police officer in Karachi.
Soon after the murder, he successfully escaped from Pakistan, suggesting the possibility that the accused was a “habitually and criminally minded” person and that his formal arrest/deprivation of liberty in the said case from Sweden was necessary and required by the legal system, the letter said.
Published in Dawn, November 25, 2022