Audio leak case
\nInterior minister claims Imran led Tarin \u2018astray\u2019; FIA had sought Tarin\u2019s arrest in a case pertaining to his alleged role in derailing the IMF deal
\n Islamabad
\nInterior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Sunday that the government had given the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) permission to arrest ex-finance minister PTI Senator Shaukat Tarin in a case pertaining to his alleged role in derailing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal.
\nTwo audio leaks had surfaced in August last year in which a man, purportedly ex-minister Tarin, could be heard guiding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab finance ministers, belonging to the PTI, to tell the coalition government in the Centre and the IMF that they would not be able to commit to a provincial budget surplus in light of the monsoon floods that wrought havoc across Pakistan.
\nIn a notice issued to Tarin in September last year, the FIA said an inquiry had been initiated against his alleged role on the basis of the audio leak.
\nFIA, which completed a preliminary inquiry into Tarin\u2019s audio leaks, saw his leaked conversations as an \u201cattempt to disrupt\u201d the IMF loan programme and funds, thereby causing harm to the national interest.
\nThe FIA sought approval from the interior ministry to initiate legal proceedings against Tarin, leading to his arrest, the sources had added.
\nCommenting on the matter during a press conference in Karachi, Sanaullah lashed out against PTI Chairman Imran Khan and alleged that for the last seven to eight months after his ouster he was \u201ccampaigning and making efforts that Pakistan is subject to political instability so it can\u2019t achieve economic stability and defaults\u201d.
\nThe interior minister added that \u201cfor this purpose, he (Imran) also led astray a person like Shaukat Tarin who under his influence did such an action because of which Pakistan could\u2019ve been hurt.
\n\u201cInquiry against him (Tarin) is complete, the FIA had asked permission to arrest him which the government has given and he should be punished for it so no one ever dares to do something like this again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Audio leak case Interior minister claims Imran led Tarin \u2018astray\u2019; FIA had sought Tarin\u2019s arrest in a case pertaining to his alleged role in derailing the IMF deal Islamabad Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Sunday that the government had given the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) permission to arrest ex-finance minister PTI Senator Shaukat Tarin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n