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ISLAMABAD, Dec 4 (APP): Advisor to Prime
Minister on Interior Rehman Malik Thursday said India has given a list of three
persons including Tiger Memon, Dawood Ibrahim and Maulana Masud Azher to
Pakistan for extradition. However, Malik rejected the presence of the
three in Pakistan adding Tiger Memon and Daud Ibrahim were Indian nationals,
“theire presence in Pakistan is out of question. India must share evidence
regarding Maulana Masud Azher.”
Malik refuted that Pakistan had handed over a
similar list to India for extradition of some persons. “I have no knowledge of
any list handed over by Pakistan to India for extradition.”
He strongly condemned the Mumbai attacks,
terming it a conspiracy by terrorists to bring both the nations to a war like
situation.
“I appreciate the leadership of the two
counties who had foiled the nefarious designs of terrorists.”
The Advisor assured full support to India in
investigating the incident, adding the culprits must be brought to justices
whosoever they were.
Earlier, referring to Forex scame, he said 11
cases, two each at Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Rawalpindi, Lahore and
Karachi Zones and five at FIA Peshawar Zone have been registered against the
accused.
All the accused namely Rustam Ali Khan, Tariq
Mehmood, Javed Khanani and Munaf Kalia were arrested and sent to judicial
custody by the court.
The Director/Owner of Duniya enterprises
Niyamat Mirza is on interim bail from the court till December 5, 2008 while his
son Faisal Mirza is still at large and his warrants of arrest have been
obtained.
He said the investigation conducted so far
transpired that an amount of Rs. 103,849,300,144 w.e.f July 18, 2005 to November
6, 2008 had been transmitted through Hawala in 543,510 transactions at Karachi.
Whereas latest deciphering of another server by
Forensic Experts pertaining to the month of June and July 2008 reveals that an
amount of US $ 348,214,27, British Pound 678,809, Japanese Yen 1,896,399 has
been remitted, he said.
Malik further revealed that the total amount of
foreign currency remitted illegally out of Pakistan during this period comes to
US $ 451,216,16, while further investigation is in progress.
He said there were a total 17 computers which
were taken into custody, while the FIA has decoded only three computers.
He said that after the legal action by FIA, not
only the flow of foreign exchange has reportedly swelled by millions of rupees
through official channel in the last month, but also the price of US dollar has
witnessed a significant decline.
The Advisor said legislation is being drafted
to restrict the movement of money across the country.
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