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ISLAMABAD - Rejecting the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) report over the alleged corruption of Rs 22 billion in Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), the Supreme Court directed the FIA on Monday to arrest the real culprits involved in the scam and submit a report on February 1.
The three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a suo motu case against the alleged scam in PSM. The court warned

ISLAMABAD - The Establishment Division on Friday submitted to the Supreme Court a list of nine senior law enforcement officers who are employed on a contractual basis. These officers include Sindh Inspector General of Police Sultan Salahuddin Babar Khatak BPS 22; Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Waseem Ahmed BPS 21; Intelligence Bureau Karachi Director Tariq Jamil; Larkana DIG Deen Muhammad Baloch; Sindh DIG Khurram Gulzar; Lahore AIG Railways Akhtar Hayat; Nadir

ISLAMABAD - The federal government on Wednesday appointed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Punjab Director Zafar Qureshi as the managing director of the Police Foundation. The Establishment Division has issued a notification in this regard.
Qureshi was heading the FIA team which is probing the NICL scam. A few days ago, Qureshi had requested FIA seniors to separate him from the inquiry committee, as the Chaudhrys of Gujrat had raised questions on his impartiality, however, he

ISLAMABAD - Former Balochistan police inspector general Javed Bukhari has been appointed as additional director general of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). Pakistan Today learnt that Bukhari's appointment notification had also been issued and he would also lead the investigation team probing into the Haj scam. His appointment was made after the Supreme Court directed FIA Director General Wasim Ahmed to relinquish his charge as head of the Haj Scam probe team.

ISLAMABAD - The FIA has cleared former minister for religious affairs Hamid Kazmi from corruption allegations levelled on him regarding the Haj scam. According to an FIA report, former Haj director general Rao Shakil and middleman Ahmad Faiz did not transfer any amount in Kazmi's bank account therefore he was cleared of the charges.
The 21-page report stated that there was no evidence that Shakil and Faiz had transferred any amount in Kazmi's accounts in Muslim Commercial Bank

ISLAMABAD - The Senate Standing Committee on Commerce on Friday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to advertise the sales of land illegally purchased by the NICL in order to assess their actual value.
Chairing the committee's meeting, Senator Ilyas Ahmed Bilour rejected the value assessment of properties by FIA, saying the evaluation conducted by the agency appeared to be an attempt to give a clean chit to the suspects.
DG FIA Waseem Ahmed admitted they too were

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) team probing Haj scam returned disappointed from Saudi Arabia on Thursday as it failed to grill the main accused of the scandal, Ahmad Faiz owing to the Saudi government's refusal to record the statements of Saudi nationals.
Interpol had issued red notice for Ahmad Faiz who had allegedly embezzled 18.32 million Saudi riyals in collaboration with the agents and officials of the Haj directorate in Makkah, a source said.
It

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was reprimanded and told off by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Health on Tuesday, who called for cancellation of probe into the locally produced interferon injections and condemned the Ministry of Science and Technology for referring the case to FIA in the first place.
The committee members warned the ministry of science that if any action is taken by FIA against Riazuddin Sheikh, the scientist who had achieved a

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team probing the Haj scam has recorded Interior Minister Rehman Malik's statement regarding the removal of former Haj director general (DG) Rao Shakeel's name from the exit-control list (ECL).
FIA DG Waseem Ahmad said the FIA team had recorded Malik's statement of Rehman Malik during which the minister explained his position on the removal of Shakeel's name from the ECL.
"Rehman Malik directed the interior secretary to

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team investigating the Haj scam on Sunday called Zain Iftikhar Sukhera, a close friend of Abdul Qadir Gilani, son of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for questioning.
Sukhera was quizzed at the agency's headquarters for his alleged involvement in Haj scam. FIA has found important clues regarding Sukhera's involvement in the Haj scam he could be arrested for that, a FIA source told Pakistan Today.
He said former Haj

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been asked to investigate irregularities in the affairs of National Institute of Electronic Employees Cooperative Housing Society (NIEECHS) as its management has sold 33 kanals of land worth Rs 250 million without the consent of members and allottees of the society.
A source told Pakistan Today that the employees of National Institute of Electronics (NIE) had initiated a housing society NIEECHS with the approval of

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Gujrat on Monday arrested two most wanted human traffickers whose names were included in the FIA Red Book. According to FIA sources, Muhammad Ehsan and Mehdi were wanted by FIA Gujrat in different cases of human trafficking.
After receiving information about hideouts of the most wanted human traffickers, a FIA Gujrat special team conducted a raid and arrested both the accused. Ehsan and Mehdi were involved in human trafficking from

KARACHI - The Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) has received several complaints against state-run departments and acquired evidence against them as well, Moazzam Jah Ansari, FIA Sindh director said on Tuesday.
The departments involved in corruption include Pakistan Railways, National Database and Registration Authority, National Highway Authority, Pakistan State Oil, Passport Cell, Customs, Karachi Port Trust, Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Supply Corporation and National

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Punjab raided an office owned by Pakistan Muslim League-Q leader MPA Moonis Elahi and arrested his manager Abdul Malik on Monday.
FIA officials conducted a raid at the office of a company, Al-Tahoor Pvt Limited, located in Garden Town, and owned by Moonis. The officials arrested the company's manager and started interrogating him. They also took all the record in their custody for investigation.
Sources in the FIA said Malik

LAHORE - Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Punjab on Monday arrested an FIA Punjab forensic expert for embezzling case evidence in renowned Operation Gold case.
FIA sources claim a couple of months ago FIA investigators unearthed the gold smuggling and arrested the culprits involved.
The case was named Operation Gold. FIA investigators recovered three mobile from the arrested accused persons as case evidence and handed over these mobile phones to FIA Punjab forensic

LAHORE - Former National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) chairman Ayaz Khan Niazi was handed over to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Karachi on a three-day transit remand on Thursday by Duty Magistrate Ahtisham Sadiq.
The FIA Karachi two-member team consisting of Deputy Director Corporate Crime Circle (CCC) Altaf Hussain and Inspector CCC Muhammad Anwar reached Lahore and requested Niazi's transit remand from Sadiq.
The FIA Karachi team said that Niazi was wanted in

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to expand the scope of the inquiry into Benazir Bhutto's murder by including officials of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB).
FIA Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfikar said on Thursday that during the investigations, senior police officials had named some ISI, MI and IB officials. "We will also interrogate these officials," he told reporters after court proceedings