Bureau Report
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday quashed the petition of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Qaiser, in which he challenged the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) inquiry against him in the prohibited funding case.
A PHC bench headed by Justice Lal Jan delivered a short verdict, while the court also directed the FIA to continue the inquiry. Asad Qaiser’s lawyer said that he will approach the Supreme Court against the verdict of the PHC.
It merits mention here that former Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser was summoned by the FIA in the prohibited funding case, against which he approached the Peshawar High Court, while after the lawyers for the parties had completed their arguments regarding the jurisdiction of the FIA, the court had reserved the decision.
On Sept 07, Asad Qaiser had appeared before FIA in the prohibited funding case in Peshawar.
He was given a questionnaire in which was asked to provide the details of his personal bank accounts as well as his source of income.
He was asked to provide the main reasons for opening the accounts if he received any transaction from a foreign company. or if the account was declared in the documents submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The questionnaire also inquired who operated the accounts and signed the cheques.
He was even asked about the date on which he joined PTI and his main source of income back then and now. Talking to journalists Asad Qaiser said that he would answer all these questions after consultation with his legal team. He spent 40 minutes at the FIA office. Qaiser is accused of running two PTI accounts on his name and foreign transactions were recorded in these accounts.
