What could be termed an unexpected development in the against PrimeMinister and Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz, the Federal InvestigationAgency (FIA) on Saturday sought a court order for their in the case.
Prosecutor Farooq Bajwa told the FIA’sthat the Agency wanted to take bothfather and son into custody for questioning in order to determine theextent of their roles in the scam.
He, on the occasion, also presented in the court an updated report on thechallan against 16 suspects in the case.
Giving his arguments on the bail petition filed by , his counsel AmjadPervez Advocate said that the had been dragging on the case forone-and-a-half year against his client, but without any success. “BothShehbaz and were twice interrogated in judicial lockup, which was a badintent on the part of the Agency officials,” he said, and added thatdespite the fact that statements of employees of his clients were recordedduring the PTI government, the failed to get anything out of that.
“They even tried to get fake testimony in support of their allegationsagainst father and son, but they got none,” he claimed.
Amjad Advocate said that it was alleged that Shehbaz had laundered themoney through Mushtaq Cheeni. “But the latter was not nominated in thecase. Even his confessional statement was not attached with the challan,”he regretted.
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Truth of the matter was, he went on to add, that his both clients weresubjected to political victimization. “All this was done as a part ofpolitical engineering,” he alleged.
However, Special Judge Central Ijaz Hassan Awan allowed both the primeminister and the chief minister to leave the court.
Later, talking to the media outside the court, spokesman for the Punjabgovernment Ataullah Tarar said that the nation’s both time and money werewasted on politically motivated cases.
