Tag: Fia

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday criticised Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on its role in Steel Mills corruption and losses case.
He said if FIA was unable to investigate then the responsibility can be given to another institution.
CJ said FIA was unable to catch any 'big fish' in the case yet, a private TV reported.
The apex court has taken up a suo motu case relating to corruption and huge losses suffered by the

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) Information Secretary Kamil Ali Agha accused Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) Additional Director General (ADG) Zafar Qureshi of unleashing a personal agenda of vengeance against Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and his family, in a press statement issued in Lahore on Tuesday, and said that Zafar Ahmad Qureshi had failed to find any proof against Monis Elahi in the 14 day physical remand.
Agha said that Qureshi despite his machination has also

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Information Secretary Kamil Ali Agha and party's parliamentary leader in the Punjab Assembly on Monday condemned the FIA's Additional Director General Zafar Ahmad Qureshi's accusation against Moonis Elahi. In a statement issued on Monday they said that despite all out efforts, the FIA had failed to produce any proof of Moonis Elahi's corruption and all the accusations were part of 'baseless' media trial.

ISLAMABAD - Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Malik Muhammad Iqbal on Monday called on Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani here at the PM House Monday morning. The PM congratulated Malik Iqbal on resuming the charge as new director general FIA and asked him to run the organization strictly in accordance with the rules and regulations.

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency has summoned its former director general Waseem Ahmed for questioning in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) financial scam, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.
Waseem Ahmed resigned from his office some days ago after the Supreme Court ordered the government to remove him allegedly for 'changing the direction' of high-profile cases, including last year's Haj scam and the NICL case. In his resignation letter to Prime

RAWALPINDI - The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) hearing the Benazir Bhutto murder case on Saturday again directed the FIA to serve arrest warrants on Musharraf at his London residence.
While resuming hearing on the case, ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed Khan reprimanded FIA prosecutors for their failure to serve warrants on the former president. FIA Director Wajid Zia said the British Home Department, through a letter, had assured taking action.
He also submitted copy of the BHD

COMMENT - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) prosecutors may have another amusing tale to tell the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) about why former president Pervez Musharraf, who is wanted in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, could not be arrested and produced in court despite issuance of warrants for his arrest.
How "innocent" were the FIA officials who first carried Musharraf's arrest warrant to his Islamabad farmhouse address and reported back to the court that the former

ISLAMABAD - Federal Investigating Agency Director General (DG) Waseem Ahmed resigned from his post on Wednesday and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani appointed Balochistan Police inspector general (IG) Malik Muhammad Iqbal in his place.
Ahmad sent his resignation to the prime minister, who was in London on a private visit. Waseem had come under severe criticism from the Supreme Court for allegedly providing protection to an accused person in the National Insurance Company Limited

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani appointed Malik Muhammad Iqbal, IG Balochistan as DG, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
It may be mentioned that Mr Waseem Ahmed, DG, FIA had submitted his resignation which has been accepted.

LAHORE - The FIA has failure in implicating my client in the NICL land deal, Moonis Elahis' defence lawyer said. He said the FIA is concocting stories to malign Elahi's reputation. Commenting on the 14 days physical remand, he said the FIA had used all methods in the book but were unable to come up with evidence against Moonis Elahi. He said that this was undeniable proof of Moonis Elahi's innocence.
Moonis Elahi's defence lawyer said that it was now evident to all that the

LAHORE - PML-Q Punjab secretary general Chaudhry Zaheer-ud-Din on Monday claimed party leader Moonis Elahi was framed in a case in which the investigating agency had already a made hundred percent recovery. He made the claim talking to media at district courts before the appearance of Moonis Elahi in the court. Chaudhary Zaheer also claimed that FIA could not extract a single paisa from Moonis in NICL scam during the 10-day physical remand. He maintained that Moonis belong to a

RAWALPINDI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to contact Interpol to bring former president Pervez Musharraf back to Pakistan in order to ensure an immediate implementation of arrest warrant issued by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) for his alleged involvement in Benazir Bhutto's murder.
FIA prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar told reporters on Saturday that the agency would approach Interpol for arresting Mushrraf after the court ordered immediate implementation of the

ISLAMABAD - The court hearing the Hajj scam case Saturday remanded Former minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi in the physical custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for another four days.
Kazmi has been in FIA's custody since his arrest on March 15 for his alleged involvement in Hajj corruption case. Kazmi was brought to the court of Senior Civil Judge Rai Liaqat Kharal under tight security as dozens of his supporters had assembled outside the courtroom

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court ordered on Thursday that the investigation against former Establishment Division secretary Ismail Qureshi be conducted by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)'s Additional Director General Syed Jawed Ali Bukhari, subject to a final order that might be passed after hearing the matter in the main case on April 8.
An order passed by Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed in an in-chamber hearing, however, stated that "in the meanwhile, Ismail Qureshi not be

LAHORE - Local Judicial Magistrate Ikhtisham Sadiq on Thursday extended the physical remand of Moonis Elahi, involved in National Insurance Corporation Scam, until March 28. Earlier, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) produced Moonis in court to get extension in his physical remand after the completion of the second term of his remand. During the hearing, defense counsel, Muhammad Iqbal Bhatti, argued that Moonis was innocent and was being politically victimized. He said that Moonis

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has referred Rs 110 million embezzlement case of defunct Tawana Pakistan Project (TPP) to the National Accountability Bureau. The project deprecator Irfanullah and a few of his aides have been accused of scam.
TPP was a Musharraf era pilot health project (2003-2005). According to FIA sources, project director Irfanullah was still at large but the agency had arrested some of his accomplices involved in making fraudulent purchases

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) informed the Supreme Court on Monday that an amount of Rs1.68 billion has been recovered and challan against the accused forwarded to the court of competent jurisdiction. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani and Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany was hearing a suo motu case against violation of public procurement Rules, 2004 by National Insurance Company Ltd (NICL) in the