Pakistan's fia summons former na speaker qaiser, 10 others in pti foreign funding case

After former Pakistan National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, 10 more Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders have been summoned by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in connection to the

probe linked to PTI’s prohibited funding case. > FIA has summoned ex-Sindh governor Imran Ismail, Seema Zia, Mian > Mahmood-ur-Rashid and others for interrogation, Ary News reported.

> On Saturday, the agency summoned Qaser to record his statement on > August 11 while Imran Ismail and Seema Zia have been asked to appear > before the agency on August 12 and 15 

respectively. Qaiser, in a statement, claimed that he hasn't received any summon notice. "Have not done anything illegal, do not have anything to worry about," he added. The

probe agency had sent a notice to Qaiser and it said that as per the verdict on Akbar Babar’s case, the former speaker has two bank accounts and is connected with the functioning of those

accounts.  > FIA has also identified four employees of Imran Khan's party's > secretariat, whose salaries and personal accounts were used for > receiving foreign funds. 

Meanwhile, the probe agency has identified four employees - Muhammad Arshad, Tahir Iqbal, Muhammad Rafique, and Nauman Afza - of the PTI secretariat, whose personal and salary accounts were

used for receiving foreign funding. The PTI employees said that the money that was deposited in their accounts was given to PTI's finance manager. The employees used to hand over blank

cheques to the finance manager, according to reports. The FIA probe comes days after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECA) ruled that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf received prohibited

funding in the case pending since 2014, Geo News reported. Akbar Babar, the person who exposed the inflow of foreign funds, approached the FIA on Wednesday to initiate an investigation

against the PTI. He had alleged that Rs 11.104 million was received in accounts of PTI employees which was beyond their source of income. Earlier this week, the Pakistan government also

decided to file a disqualification reference against PTI supremo Imran Khan after the ECA's verdict.