Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has ordered a probe into the killing of the eldest son of the chief of the dreaded Haqqani network, which has been blamed for attacks on the US forces in Afghanistan. According to sources, Chaudhry Nisar has directed the police to launch a comprehensive investigation into Nasiruddin Haqqanis murder without leaving any aspect un-probed and report in the least possible time. Nasiruddin was the son of the Haqqani network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani. AFP Adds: Nasiruddin Haqqani, the chief money man for one of the most feared factions fighting US-led forces in Afghanistan, died in a hail of bullets outside a bakery on the edge of Islamabad on November 10. After his death it has emerged that he had been living since 2010 in the suburb, Bhara Kahu, a respected local figure known as Doctor sahib. According to witnesses, after the shooting at around 8:30 pm on Sunday, Pakistani agents came, collected all the bullet casings from the scene and washed away the blood from the pavement outside the bakery. By then Haqqanis body was already gone, taken away immediately by his driver to the nearby house where Haqqani had lived since 2010, a discreet one-storey brick building. News of the death of Doctor sahib spread quickly through the area, but the police seemed curiously unhurried, only arriving at the house at 11:00 pm, according to neighbours. They found nothing, and it was hardly surprising. At least two hours earlier, Haqqanis body had been taken for burial in North Waziristan, the tribal area on the Afghan border where the Haqqanis and their Al-Qaeda allies have strongholds. The journey of nearly 400 kilometres (250 miles) was hardly done discreetly -- a source close to the Haqqani family told AFP the body was carried in a convoy of seven vehicles, including four 4x4s. It was a substantial caravan to pass unchallenged through the countless police and military checkpoints that lie between Islamabad and North Waziristan, one of the most heavily-watched areas of the country. Haqqani was buried the next day in Dandey Darpakhel, the North Waziristan village where Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed by a US drone strike on November 1. The Pakistani Taliban blamed the ISI for Haqqanis death, but others, including Afghan intelligence, have pointed to a potential rift in the jihadist movements. As the head of financial operations for the Haqqanis, it is also possible he fell foul of ruthless business contacts.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 01:59:01 +0000
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