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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Police know where to find me, says Pakistani</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>MALIK. no one has come to talk to me</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>TARIQ Malik, one of four Pakistani nationals who the police say they want to interview in connection with the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, says no one from the Jamaican security forces has sought to have audience with him.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Malik and his three countrymen have been branded as fanatics by sections of the British media who reported that the local cops thought they were suspects in the murder and were hunting them.<P class=StoryText align=justify>On Monday, Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields said homicide investigators were looking into interviewing the four Pakistanis who were allegedly hanging around the Pakistan cricket team and were seen at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel where Woolmer was strangled in room 374 on the 12th floor two Sundays ago.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The police say they want to get DNA samples and interview everyone who was in the hotel during the time of the Pakistanis' visit to the island in order to narrow their pool of suspects.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But Malik, who operates Carland Investments Limited at Old Hope Road in Kingston, said yesterday that local cops know him well and would have no problem locating him.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"No one has come to talk to me. It is unfair for our names to be bandied about when in reality no one has even tried to contact me. The police are not looking for anybody," Malik said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The car dealer, who says he has lived in Jamaica for 25 years, admitted that he hosted the team at his home and that he supplied them with Pakistani food.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I am more familiar with the team management than with the team, but everyone came to my house," he told the Observer.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Malik, in the meantime, supported a claim by Zafar Iqbal Chaudhary, chairman of Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Sports, that poor security arrangements at the hotel were to be blamed for Woolmer's killing.
"He was not here to see it but I was. It seems they were overwhelmed as there were four teams, media and a lot of visitors so almost everyone had access to the guest floors," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Malik said he saw four Pakistani fans enter the elevator and make their way to the fifth floor where the Pakistani team was staying without any hassle from security personnel who were deployed at the Pegasus.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yesterday, the police were still busy reviewing the CCTV footage and perusing fingerprint and DNA evidence.<P class=StoryText align=justify>He also said the person or persons who killed Woolmer were not Jamaican because Jamaicans most often used guns, knives or machetes as implements of murder.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In the meantime, Pakistani journalist, Ghulam Murtaza, who works for the Voice of America, reported that only two members of the Pakistan team, Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan, had returned to their homeland.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yousuf was reportedly whisked away through a side exit at the Karachi Airport, while Khan was greeted with taunts and jeers upon his arrival.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Pakistan Captain Inzamam-ul-Haq, hard-hitting batsman Shahid Afridi, along with Danish Kaneria and Azhar Mahmood are staying wi
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=197 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>MALIK. no one has come to talk to me</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>TARIQ Malik, one of four Pakistani nationals who the police say they want to interview in connection with the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, says no one from the Jamaican security forces has sought to have audience with him.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Malik and his three countrymen have been branded as fanatics by sections of the British media who reported that the local cops thought they were suspects in the murder and were hunting them.<P class=StoryText align=justify>On Monday, Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields said homicide investigators were looking into interviewing the four Pakistanis who were allegedly hanging around the Pakistan cricket team and were seen at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel where Woolmer was strangled in room 374 on the 12th floor two Sundays ago.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The police say they want to get DNA samples and interview everyone who was in the hotel during the time of the Pakistanis' visit to the island in order to narrow their pool of suspects.<P class=StoryText align=justify>But Malik, who operates Carland Investments Limited at Old Hope Road in Kingston, said yesterday that local cops know him well and would have no problem locating him.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"No one has come to talk to me. It is unfair for our names to be bandied about when in reality no one has even tried to contact me. The police are not looking for anybody," Malik said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The car dealer, who says he has lived in Jamaica for 25 years, admitted that he hosted the team at his home and that he supplied them with Pakistani food.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I am more familiar with the team management than with the team, but everyone came to my house," he told the Observer.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Malik, in the meantime, supported a claim by Zafar Iqbal Chaudhary, chairman of Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Sports, that poor security arrangements at the hotel were to be blamed for Woolmer's killing. "He was not here to see it but I was. It seems they were overwhelmed as there were four teams, media and a lot of visitors so almost everyone had access to the guest floors," he said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Malik said he saw four Pakistani fans enter the elevator and make their way to the fifth floor where the Pakistani team was staying without any hassle from security personnel who were deployed at the Pegasus.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yesterday, the police were still busy reviewing the CCTV footage and perusing fingerprint and DNA evidence.<P class=StoryText align=justify>He also said the person or persons who killed Woolmer were not Jamaican because Jamaicans most often used guns, knives or machetes as implements of murder.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In the meantime, Pakistani journalist, Ghulam Murtaza, who works for the Voice of America, reported that only two members of the Pakistan team, Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan, had returned to their homeland.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Yousuf was reportedly whisked away through a side exit at the Karachi Airport, while Khan was greeted with taunts and jeers upon his arrival.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Pakistan Captain Inzamam-ul-Haq, hard-hitting batsman Shahid Afridi, along with Danish Kaneria and Azhar Mahmood are staying wi
