Former director general of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Bashir Memon has levelled serious allegations against Prime Minister Imran Khan.
In an interview to a private TV news channel, Bashir Memon claimed that he was asked to lodge terrorism cases against PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz.
“First he asked for a terrorism case in a matter related to education reforms, secondly when a picture of a rally surfaced and third in a judge video scandal case,” he said while explaining the demands of the prime minister.
Bashir Memon claimed that he was forced to arrest a number of opposition leaders. When he told them on what legal pretext they [opposition leaders] could be arrested, he was asked to arrest them and cases would be framed later.
The programme host quoted Bashir Mehmon as saying that the government wanted to lodge case against a sitting judge of the Supreme Court. The ex-DG said he told the authorities that lodging a case against a sitting judge was legally not possible and that it was the jurisdiction of the Supreme Judicial Council to take up any complaint, if any, against the sitting judge.
Earlier, Bashir Memon had alleged that Faroogh Naseem and Shahzad Akbar wanted him to proceed against Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa and other opposition leaders.
Bashir Memon had in an interview in October 2020 levelled the same allegations against the “highest office”.
He had resigned on November 20, 2019, days before he was to retire in protest against his transfer days before his retirement.
FAROGH NASEEM, SHAHZAD AKBAR DENIAL:
Meanwhile, Advisor to Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Shahzad Akbar and Minister for Law and Justice Barrister Farogh Naseem have rebutted the allegations levelled by the former chief of FIA.
Shahzad called the interview “rubbish” in a tweet and said that Memon was never called for any meeting with the PM or him on Justice Qazi Faez Isa issue and was never told to start any case against any specific individual.
“The only case referred to FIA was of sedition by the federal cabinet. I have instructed lawyers in a personal capacity to initiate legal action for his slander.”
Law Minister Farogh Naseem also strongly refuted the former FIA chief’s allegations in his tweet.
