ISLAMABAD: A live video conference is going on from Serena Hotel Islamabad to District Court of Florida where 4 accused are defending their case. Details will be uploaded soon. It is learnt that Red Warrant of these people have been issues by United States. Sources claim that one of these person is namely Ali Rehman.
It may be mentioned that security forces on May 16, 2011 arrested one Alamzeb and interrogated his mother Amna Bibi, both of whom – along with a third person named Ali Rehman – are wanted by the United States. As per details, a security forces team raided the house of Amna and questioned her in connection with US allegations. Amna’s father Hafiz Sher Ali and his two sons Irfanul Haq and Izharul Haq have been arrested by US authorities and charged with giving around $45,000 to the Taliban militants in Swat through Amna, Alamzeb and Ali Rehman. The security forces did not arrest Amna but took Alamzeb with them to an undisclosed location.
Testifying via video from Pakistan, a man accused by the U.S. of conspiring with an elderly Miami-based Muslim cleric to funnel thousands of dollars to Taliban terrorists insisted Monday the money was for innocent purposes, including a potato chip factory run by the cleric’s son-in-law.
Ali Rehman was the first of as many as 11 witnesses expected to testify from an Islamabad hotel in defense of 77-year-old Hafiz Khan, who faces four terrorism support and conspiracy counts. Rehman is named in the same indictment and refused to come to the U.S. Other witnesses were unable to get U.S. visas in time.
Rehman said he handled three separate $10,000 transactions for Khan in 2008 and 2009. Most of the money, he testified, went to Anayat Ullah, who is married to Khan’s daughter Husna and started the potato chip business with his father-in-law as an investor. Rehman said he has known Ullah since they were children in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and wanted to do him a favor.
Rehman said he handled three separate $10,000 transactions for Khan in 2008 and 2009. Most of the money, he testified, went to Anayat Ullah, who is married to Khan’s daughter Husna and started the potato chip business with his father-in-law as an investor. Rehman said he has known Ullah since they were children in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and wanted to do him a favor.
