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Imran Farooq not in custody

'Saudi Arabia

now MQM's

communication

channel'

KARACHI: Interior Minister Nasirullah Baber said at a press conference on Saturday that after the breakup of communication system of MQM Altaf Group they were now using Saudi Arabia also as a channel for communication.

He said in Pakistan they do not have direct communication with each other.

The interior minister said that Khalid Bin Walid, a central leader of MQM Altaf Group has disclosed the sources and channels from where the MQM was getting money and where spending it and from where they used to get arms. The minister said he was the finance secretary.

To another question he denied custody of MQM's General Secretary Imran Farooq with the government. "He is not in our custody", he told a questioner._APP