Former MP nabbed over Stanczak murder

31st July 2009

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Police in Pakistan have arrested a former politician for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and beheading of Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak.

Shah Abdul Aziz, a cleric and former MP with the Islamic National Assembly, was apprehended after the main suspect in the case, a militant named Attaullah Khan, told police he had killed the Pole on Aziz's orders.

“The whole plan was conceived by him. [Aziz] also acted as a middleman for the Taliban in negotiations with the government,” a police spokesman told the Pakistani daily Dawn.

But the family of Aziz claims he is being set up. “They're saying that he's behind the killing of the engineer as Khan told police my brother ordere ...

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