The British High Commission has discarded the investigations by the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) pertaining to the Olympics passport scam, which has jeopardized the credibility of passport and ID card issuing authority in Pakistan, a private TV channel reported on Friday. The British High Commission’s report came in reply to FIA’s letter written to the commission. The report said British tabloid The Sun agent Ali Asad came to Pakistan on a British passport and managed to get a fake CNIC and a machine-readable Pakistani passport on the specifics of “Mohammad Ali Asad”. The FIA officials claimed that the high commission’s report had tried to conceal certain facts. Earlier on Wednesday, Pakistan’s federal cabinet decided to take legal action against the British tabloid for publishing a fabricated report on Pakistan’s passport-issuing authority. The cabinet had announced its decision to sue the UK-based tabloid for a story published in the paper on Monday, July 23, which alleged that a group of travel agents and a politician were involved in a scam, which allowed anyone to travel with the Pakistani Olympic contingent as support staff if they paid a certain amount of money.
UK High Commission discards FIA’s investigation into passport scam
