Moualana Tahir Ashrafi in hot waters, may be arrested
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ISLAMABAD – Moualana Tahir Ashrafi lands in big trouble over the issue of receiving funding from western countries.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has launched an investigation against Tahir Ashrafi over dubious transactions in his bank accounts, local media reported on Tuesday.
The anti-terrorism wing of the agency is investigating Moulana Tahir Ashrafi, the chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council after the matter of suspicious funding surfaced.
The religious scholar is facing the allegation of receiving funds from western countries to promote their agenda in the country.
The FIA has issued a notice to Ashrafi, directing him to appear before the investigator on December 26. The investigation, according to the agency, could be extended to more persons.
Meanwhile, Ashraf has denied the allegations, stating that there was no dubious transaction from his bank accounts.
He said, “I am in Saudi Arabia and will appear before the FIA team after reaching Pakistan”.
In March 2017, the Central Executive Body (Majlis-i-Shoora) and the common body (Majlis-i-Amoomi) of the Pakistan Ulema Council had alleged that its former head Moulana Tahir Ashrafi secretly received funds from international NGO’s.
The allegation was leveled by PUC Secretary General Sahibzada Zahid Mahmood Qasmi who claimed that there was solid evidence of misuse of office by Maulana Tahir Ashrafi as he had entered into clandestine contracts with the US State Department and other foreign agencies to secure hefty funds.
Announcing the decisions of the council’s meeting, Sahibzada Zahid Mahmood Qasmi, who is also a member of Islamic Ideology Council, maintained that the supreme bodies of PUC had also delinked him from the subordinate bodies of the council Wafaul Masajid Pakistan, Ilm-o-Aman Foundation and Tahaffuz-i-Madaris-i-Diniya.
Qasmi said that Tahir Ashrafi had inked international agreements in flagrant contradiction to Islamic principles and constitution of PUC.
“Moulana had secretly set up Ilm-o-Aman foundation in Lahore for which he received funds in a bank account through international NGO’s,” alleged Qasmi.
He further said that the PUC condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations in its meeting and put its weight behind the recently launched operation Raddul Fasaad to hunt down the militants across the country.
