ISLAMABAD: Having failed to find Punjabi Taliban or other religious extremists, police have now been attempting to change the course of investigation into assassination of minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti so that a neck is readily achieved that could fit the noose.
Bhatti was assassinated on March 2 in Sector I-8/3 after a visit to his mother’s house. Three or four persons, wearing shawls, stopped his official car and murdered him with Kalashnikov. After that, they fled easily.
Sources told Daily Times that a joint investigation team has assumed that the assassins have not used a stolen car in this case otherwise they would have dumped it somewhere in the twin cities, as is the practice adopted by terrorists in high-profile cases.
On the basis of this assumption, they said, the investigators have built another assumption that if the car is not stolen, it must have been parked in nearby locality – Sector I-8. They said that the killers, if religious, could not throw a pamphlet, reading that Punjabi Taliban have killed the minister, on road because it bore names of Allah and Prophit Muhammad (PBUH). They also believe that Taliban had not done the deed because they actually have refused to take refused to take responsibility and have not released an footage of the killing, as they are wont to. They said during investigation, the law enforcement agencies have found that Bhatti had allegedly grabbed a plot adjacent to FC College in Lahore and there was a property dispute with a party.
Another issue which has been found is that Bhatti had also allegedly grabbed 20 acres of land in Shahzad Town to settle Christians there eventuating in a property dispute with land owners.
During investigation, they said that joint investigation team has come to know that Bhatti started friendship with a nurse in 1995 and promised to marry her bit have not. On the day when Bhatti was assassinated, that nurse was present in his mother’s house.
They said the police have detected that Bhatti had sore relations with a man named Hector, who after having been in jail for sometime, got out a few days before the assassination. The police have involved him in investigation too. An officer of Ministry of Interior said reason behind Bhatti’s assassination can be enmity.
Bhatti was assassinated on March 2 in Sector I-8/3 after a visit to his mother’s house. Three or four persons, wearing shawls, stopped his official car and murdered him with Kalashnikov. After that, they fled easily.
Sources told Daily Times that a joint investigation team has assumed that the assassins have not used a stolen car in this case otherwise they would have dumped it somewhere in the twin cities, as is the practice adopted by terrorists in high-profile cases.
On the basis of this assumption, they said, the investigators have built another assumption that if the car is not stolen, it must have been parked in nearby locality – Sector I-8. They said that the killers, if religious, could not throw a pamphlet, reading that Punjabi Taliban have killed the minister, on road because it bore names of Allah and Prophit Muhammad (PBUH). They also believe that Taliban had not done the deed because they actually have refused to take refused to take responsibility and have not released an footage of the killing, as they are wont to. They said during investigation, the law enforcement agencies have found that Bhatti had allegedly grabbed a plot adjacent to FC College in Lahore and there was a property dispute with a party.
Another issue which has been found is that Bhatti had also allegedly grabbed 20 acres of land in Shahzad Town to settle Christians there eventuating in a property dispute with land owners.
During investigation, they said that joint investigation team has come to know that Bhatti started friendship with a nurse in 1995 and promised to marry her bit have not. On the day when Bhatti was assassinated, that nurse was present in his mother’s house.
They said the police have detected that Bhatti had sore relations with a man named Hector, who after having been in jail for sometime, got out a few days before the assassination. The police have involved him in investigation too. An officer of Ministry of Interior said reason behind Bhatti’s assassination can be enmity.
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