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Imran, Bushra names to be placed on ECL in £190m case

by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Nov 23, 2023ISLAMABAD – A sub-committee of the federal cabinet on Wednesday recommended placing the names of imprisoned PTI Chairman Imran Khan and 28 others on the Exit Control List (ECL) in the £190 million scandal. The sub-committee recommended placing these names in the nofly list on the advice of National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The caretaker federal cabinet would take a final decision on the recommendations of the subcommittee.…

New, more powerful task force formed to probe ‘passports for Afghans’ scandal:

By Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, October 26th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior formed a nine-member joint task force on Wednesday to investigate the issuance of over 12,000 passports to Afghan immigrants. The joint director general of the Intelligence Bureau is the convener of the task force, which also includes Grade-20 officers of Military Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence and Federal Investigation Agency, a notification seen by Dawn showed. Other members include the director general of the…

PTI at war with itself over £1m legal fundraising scandal

By Murtaza Ali Shah in The News, August 20, 2023LONDON: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has been rocked by a fundraising scandal after a London-based PTI group announced a £1 million legal fundraising campaign while PTI’s Pakistan legal team denounced the UK team for minting money in the name of Imran Khan’s release effort. On Friday, solicitor Rashad Yaqoob told Geo News that from his prison cell, Imran Khan had…

Cipher scandal: Former FM Qureshi arrested

report in The Frontier Post, Aug 20, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was arrested again, the party claimed on Saturday. According to PTI’s official Twitter account, Shah Mahmood Qureshi was arrested by a heavy contingent of police from his residence in Islamabad. According to the party, the former foreign minister was being transferred to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Headquarters. According to details, Qureshi was arrested by FIA…