LAHORE: FIA has recorded the statement Pervaiz Rashid of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator and former premier Nawaz Sharif’s close aide on Monday.
FIA is investigating into the purported videotape(s) in which accountability judge Arshad Malik had allegedly confessed to have convicted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia Mills reference for seven-year imprisonment under pressure.
Citing strict security measures ahead of his appearance at FIA’s Lahore branch, the senator expressed surprise and asked “why so much security has been set up for him only?” “Are so many policemen deployed to conquer Kashmir?” he questioned ironically.
Talking to media persons after recording his statement, Pervaiz Rashid lashed out at the ruling PTI by stating that the government has become “a name of putting political opponents in jails.”
“The FIA is being used [as a tool] […] before me other partners were summoned,” he said, adding that the work was being taken from the FIA which doesn’t fall under its jurisdiction.
“That person who had used to say that he wouldn’t give a NRO, has now been giving a NRO to his friends,” he responded, while referring to an amendment made to the National Accountability (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019, promulgated by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government through a presidential ordinance on Friday.
The senator, about today’s quiz, remarked that he was asked questions in a disorderly fashion. “I was asked that who were present during the press conference [you have] called me here to ask this?” “Everyone knows who was present at the press conference,” he said.
With input from INP
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