LONDON - 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.
In a clarification via email, Alan Crockford of the London Metropolitan Police told BBC 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.
“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”.