Naipaul’s brother-in-law murdered

Nobel laureate Sir Vidia Naipaul’s Pakistani brother-in-law, Maj. Gen. Amir Faisal Alvi (Retd), was murdered on November 19 in Islamabad after he had “threatened” to expose senior Pakistani Army generals who had made “deals” with Taliban militants.

Maj. Gen. Alvi, a former head of the Pakistan Army’s Special Services Group, had named two Pakistani generals in a letter to the Army Chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. He had warned in the letter that he would “furnish all relevant proofs,” according to a report in London’s Sunday Times.

Maj. Gen. Alvi was the brother of Nadira Khannum Alvi, a Pakistani journalist who went on to marry Sir Vidia and is now known as Lady Naipaul. Maj. Gen. Alvi had been mysteriously sacked by Gen. Pervez Musharraf in 2005 as head of the Special Services Group for “unbecoming conduct”.

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