As per reports, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan will be arrested any time on Monday in connection to a prohibited funding case.
Pakistani news channel ARY News reported, a four-member team has been formed for the arrest, while a summary has been forwarded to the DG FIA for final approval. The former PM will be arrested by the FIA with the help of Lahore police.
As per details available with ARY News, Imran Khan will be arrested by the FIA with the help of Lahore police, the sources said.
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Ever since the news surfaced, several supporters of the PTI have gathered around his house to stage a protest therefore, police forces have also been deployed in the area to avert any untoward incident.
A case was initially filed in 2014 by a founding member of the party, who claimed serious financial irregularities in the party’s funding. In 2018, a scrutiny committee was formed to examine the party’s financing, and the report was submitted in January 2022 after 95 hearings and almost four years. The report claimed that the party’s leadership committed gross violations of funding laws by allowing the collection of funds without any source and details from foreigners. The FIA Corporate Banking Circle registered the case in 2021 against the former Pakistani Prime Minister and ten others for allegedly receiving foreign funding and violating the Foreign Exchange Act.
The party, meanwhile, has denied any wrongdoing. With the current information, it is unclear how the case will proceed and what impact it will have on Imran Khan and the PTI party’s future.
