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Mystery grows over general's slaying in Pakistan
Reuters
Monday, Dec 15, 2008
Pakistani newspapers gave prominent coverage on Monday to a
British media report that a retired general gunned down in Islamabad
last month planned to blow the whistle on fellow generals' dealings
with the Taliban.
Jang, Pakistan's biggest selling Urdu-language newspaper, ran
a story on its front page headlined: "Gen. Alavi was against
pacts with Taliban, Musharraf had sacked him."
The reports in Jang and other Pakistani dailies were based on
a story published in the Sunday Times, and written by Carey Schofield.
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5337881.ece)
Major-General Amir Faisal Alavi, a brother-in-law of Nobel prize-winning
British novelist V.S. Naipaul, was shot dead along with his driver
on the outskirts of the capital on November 19.
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Suspicion initially fell on Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda
and the Taliban, but an investigation by police and intelligence
agencies has yet to come up with hard evidence.
"The investigation is going on but so far there has been
no progress. We could not identify the murderers or the motive,"
said Sajid Kiyani, superintendent of police in Islamabad.
Schofield says Alavi, who had commanded the elite Special Services
Group, gave her a copy of a letter he had had sent to army chief
General Ashfaq Kayani in which he named two generals whose conspiracy
resulted in his premature retirement more than two years ago.
Western and Pakistani analysts have long harboured suspicion
that Pakistan has played a double game by supporting Taliban factions
in the years since 2001, despite the heavy casualties suffered
by its security forces fighting militants in the tribal region
bordering Afghanistan.
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