Amraiz Khan
Lahore
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday raided Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s central secretariat in Model Town, Lahore to recover the material regarding former accountability court judge’s video scandal.
PML-N workers present in the office put resistance first but shortly after the raid became agreed to hand over the record to the raiding team members.
The raiding team took a computer hard drive in its custody which contained the data related to PML-N’s internal matters.
The sources claimed that purpose of the raid was to confiscate material related to the above said case.
A PML-N leader Ata Tarrar whiel condemning the raid said that the new DG FIA, Wajid Zia, has an anti-PML-N agenda.
The FIA has summoned a number of PML-N leaders for inquiry in the case.
Raiding team asked Tarrar to appear before them on Friday (today), whereas former information minister Parvaiz Rashid and Uzma Bukhari have been issued summons for December 30.
The video featuring Malik caused a storm in Pakistan after PML-N released a few parts of it – withholding six out of total seven videos – in which the former accountability court judge appeared to admit that he was blackmailed and pressurised to give verdict against PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif in order to jail him.
It is pertinent to mention here that Malik, as the accountability court judge in December 2018, had sentenced former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison in Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption reference.On July 12, Malik was relieved from his duties by the federal government for his alleged involvement in the scandal. The same day, Malik had written a letter to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) wherein he refuted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz’s claims, adding that he was offered Rs100mn as bribe.
