The government continues to drag its feet in the investigation of the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam case, as despite Supreme Court orders it has not asked Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Additional Director General Zafar Qureshi to resume investigation into the scam.
The government’s dilly-dallying clearly suggests that it wants to buy time so that Qureshi retires next month and another officer is appointed to head the NICL inquiry. “No notification has yet been issued by the Interior Ministry to reinstate Qureshi as chief investigator,” a source in the Interior Ministry said.
The Supreme Court had quashed the government’s order suspending Qureshi, ordering him to resume the task of recovering the money stolen in the scam. The apex court had issued the orders on August 8, but the government failed to comply with them in the three days that have passed since then. The Interior Ministry neither withdrew Qureshi’s suspension order nor issued a fresh notification in this regard.
Qureshi spent the whole of Tuesday waiting to hear from the FIA that his suspension had been cancelled in line with the court’s orders, but he was not approached by any official.
Qureshi visited the agency’s headquarters on Wednesday but there was hardly good news for him. A source in the FIA told Pakistan Today that Qureshi visited the headquarters and held a meeting with the FIA director general Tahseen Anwar Shah to discuss his rejoining the office.
No good news for FIA official as govt continues to stall
