Imran Khan, along with wife and Farah Gogi, was running a racket of money laundering via diamonds, alleges Atta Tarar
\n LAHORE
\nPML-N\u2019s Attaullah Tarar on Sunday announced plans for seeking \u201cred warrants\u201d to bring Farhat Shahzadi (also known as Farah Khan and a close aide of PTI chief Imran Khan\u2019s wife Bushra Bibi) back to Pakistan.
\nA red notice is an international request sent to the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) seeking the arrest and extradition of an individual. Farah reportedly left the country following Imran\u2019s ouster from power. She has since been named in several cases that have been opened against her by investigators.
\nJust two days ago, the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment booked Farah and her mother and arrested two others in a case concerning the allegedly illegal allotment of two industrial plots, measuring 10 acres, to a company owned by her.
\nThe plots were allotted on a subsidised rate offered by the government that was Rs83m but their market value was about Rs600m. In April, NAB authorised an inquiry against her on allegations of accumulating \u201cillegal assets beyond known sources of income, money laundering, and maintaining various accounts in the name of businesses\u201d.
\nAddressing a press conference in Lahore alongside Punjab Law Minister Malik Ahmed Khan, Tarar took aim at the former premier\u2019s wife and played an audio clip featuring an alleged conversation between Bushra Bibi and PTI\u2019s social media head Arsalan Khalid, in which the former issues instructions to the latter on labelling political opponents as \u201ctraitors\u201d.
\nPTI\u2019s Shahbaz Gill, in a press conference later, dismissed the audio as \u201cfake\u201d, saying the \u201cscript\u201d was written by fools.
\nTarar said the Ministry of Interior had already been communicated with about the issuance of \u201cred warrants\u201d.
\nHe also said Farah had sent him a Rs6 billion legal notice, claiming her name was Farhat Shahzadi and she was wrongly referred to as \u201cGogi\u201d by him during press talks.
\nHe said Imran should call Farah back to the country if he had a firm belief that she was innocent. \u201cI must say here that Imran is not bringing her back here because she and her husband will become approvers within an hour of their arrest,\u201d Tarar claimed.
\nThe PML-N leader accused the former prime minister of committing corruption through Farah, who, he said, was responsible for all \u201cdealings\u201d.
\nTarar informed the journalists that Farah obtained an industrial plot in Faisalabad Special Economic Zone for Rs83 million against its market value of Rs600m. \u201cFarah, her mother Bushra Khan and (Farah\u2019s husband) Ahsan Jamil Gujjar are involved in this deal.\u201d
\nHe insisted that the case would not drag for long, saying \u201cit is an open and shut case.\u201d
\nTarar said a \u201ctroika\u201d of Farah, her husband \u2014 and Bushra Bibi \u2014 would sit together after hours at the Prime Minister\u2019s House and \u201cwheel and deal\u201d.
\n\u201cImran is not an ordinary man. His corruption stories are now surfacing and a lot more will be unearthed in the days to come,\u201d Tarar claimed.
\nHe said those calling the former premier frugal and honest \u201cmust sit with him and talk about the industrial plot issue\u201d, which he said \u201ccannot be justified in any form\u201d.
\nTarar claimed Imran started \u201ccriticising the army once his corruption cases surfaced\u201d.
\nEarlier, Malik Ahmed Khan cast aspersions on the former premier\u2019s allegations against the government, saying he must furnish evidence if he had any regarding the alleged backing of institutions to the PML-N.
\nThe PTI chief, in his speech at the Parade Ground yesterday, claimed that rigging could take place during the upcoming by-polls in Punjab as \u201cthe umpires\u201d stand on the government\u2019s side.
\n\u201cWe have 20 by-elections (coming up) in Punjab. The only way they can win is through rigging. The people are against them, [but] the umpires are with them,\u201d he had said. \u201cWe have to defeat these thieves despite their umpires.\u201d
\nTo this, the Punjab law minister said: \u201cPakistan is threatened by an internal conspiracy hatched by Imran Khan as we have no threats of an external conspiracy.\u201d
\nMalik accused the former PTI government and Imran Khan of transferring \u201cbillions of rupees\u201d from digital media wing accounts to retired servicemen, who according to him, were working for the PTI\u2019s social media teams.
\nHe was of the view that Imran will have to be answerable for \u201cevery wrong he has committed\u201d.
\nMalik referred to Bushra Bibi as \u201cPinky Peerni\u201d, asking whether it was possible for her to commit financial irregularities with the approval of Imran.
\nHe emphasised that the government would also defeat the PTI in the by-elections in 20 seats of the Punjab Assembly. \u201cWe will win at least 19 of the total seats,\u201d the PML-N leader claimed.
\nWhen asked whether his party still held critical views about the army as they held during the elections, Malik said: \u201cOur criticism of the army was political and it was based on interference in [2018] elections. And we had evidence for it.\u201d
\nIn response to another query, the provincial law minister said the aleegations of Toshakhana against ex-PM Nawaz Sharif were \u201cbaseless\u201d. He said any prime minister was entitled to get a vehicle from Toshakana by paying its amount.
\nAccording to a reference filed by an accountability court, Nawaz as well as former president and co-chairperson of PPP Asif Ali Zardari had obtained cars from Toshakhana by paying only 15 per cent of the price of the luxury vehicles. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had alleged that ex-PM Yousaf Raza Gillani facilitated the allotment of the vehicles to Zardari and Nawaz by \u201cdishonestly\u201d and \u201cillegally\u201d relaxing the procedure for the acceptance and disposal of gifts vide a cabinet division memorandum of 2007.
\nMalik said Imran would sing praises of army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa when he was in the government. \u201cI can show several interviews of him wherein he is commending the army.\u201d
\nHowever, when he lost his government due to a no-trust motion, he started \u2018targeting\u201d Gen Bajwa for \u201cnot saving his government\u201d, the law minister added. He lashed out at the former PM, saying Imran hurled allegations at all his opponents while he himself \u201cremained involved in corruption\u201d.
\n\u201cHe sold watches for Rs180 million and also took along almost all gifts from the Toshkhana,\u201d the minister alleged, calling Imran Khan \u201cTosha Khan\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Imran Khan, along with wife and Farah Gogi, was running a racket of money laundering via diamonds, alleges Atta Tarar LAHORE PML-N\u2019s Attaullah Tarar on Sunday announced plans for seeking \u201cred warrants\u201d to bring Farhat Shahzadi (also known as Farah Khan and a close aide of PTI chief Imran Khan\u2019s wife Bushra Bibi) back to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6502],"class_list":{"0":"post-269495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-atta-tarar"},"yoast_head":"\n