Pakistan

Govt to formally contact UAE over Axact scam: Nisar

Interior minister says FIR against Axact is not conclusive and would be finalised after more evidence is gathered

Web Desk May 29, 2015

Interior Minister Chauhdry Nisar Ali Khan. PHOTO: ONLINE

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Friday said the government will formally contact the United Arab Emirates regarding the Axact scandal 'in a day or two'.

For this purpose, the Federal Intelligence Agency (FIA) has sent us a letter, he said in a statement.

Nisar pointed that the First Information Report (FIR) registered against Axact was not conclusive and would be finalised after more evidence is reviewed.

“We have asked for cooperation from the British government," he said, adding that while the FIA is already in contact with Interpol, it has also sought legal assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of US.

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Nisar also said that probe into the matter is underway at a face pace. He noted that a standard procedure was not undertaken in the registration of BOL.

Regarding the suspects Hammad Siddiqui and Uzair Baloch accused in different cases, he said ‘both are being monitored closely and have been kept under surveillance. “They will not be allowed to run away this time”, the interior minister said.

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Commenting on the Karachi operation, Nisar said, "It takes time to establish calm in a city of around 20 million people and whatever that has been done so far is nothing short of a miracle. Terrorists have been isolated”, the interior minister said while criticising 'those raising questions on the ongoing operation’.

COMMENTS (7)

Tousief | 8 years ago | Reply Why only axact mr. bean, wiping pakistani map on live geo news show and tax fraud by major media groups and money laundering is not the concern of FIA. Might is right.

confused | 8 years ago | Reply How'd that formal request to the FBI turn out? You expanding the investigation or just trying to get some publicity?

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S.R.H. Hashmi | 8 years ago | Reply There is a high level of activity against Axact after the ugly facts were exposed by a New York Times article and Pakistan given a bad name all over the world. And once the institution has been exposed, even the Federal Board of Revenue officials have become active against it. Surely, the activities of an institution conducting business on such a large scale should not have remained un-noticed by the government for so long. The clean up in Karachi has been described by Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan as nothing short of miracle. Miracle is something that is rare and as for clean up of Karachi, this has been done twice before. The fact that the operation is being done by Police and Rangers who have been here for decades begs the question as to why it was not done earlier, and as to why the situations was allowed to get to this stage. And like earlier operations, this one is also being treated purely as a law and order matter. No effort is being made to solve the real problems of this city of nearly twenty-five million, which is more than the population of some countries. The city is being treated like a small village, and being run from interior Sindh through a team of dis-interested officials who are interested only in what they can take out of it,by a political party which has little presence here. Just imagine that this city which, due to its large population, deserves the status of a province, does not even have an empowered local government. Surprisingly, this was a dictator who had given the city a local government during the tenure of which massive development took place in the city which earned its young Mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal the title of the Second Best Mayor in the world. However, when the democratic government took control, it hacked down the Sindh Local Government Act and stripped it of nearly all its powers. Worse still, it has shown no interest in holding local government elections even under this much diluted local government act. Another great injustice to the city has come about because of not holding the national population census after 1998. This deprives the city of its legitimate share in the National and Provincial Assembly seats because of not accounting for the massive migration to the city from interior Sindh and rest of the country during the last seventeen years. Unless a serious effort is made to solve the major problems of the city, the present operations will also bring only superficial and temporary relief. As for Hammad Siddiqui and Uzair Baloch, Chaudhry Nisar says that they are being kept under surveillance and will not be allowed to run away this time. As for Uzair Baloch, the surveillance has surely exceeded all reasonable limits and according to the information supplied in the past on many occasions, he was to be bought back to Karachi within a day or two by several official teams that had been sent abroad for this purpose, but that was months back. It makes one wonder if there really is a desire to bring him back to Pakistan. Karachi

Temur | 8 years ago | Reply Ask the swiss courts. They have far more interesting stories to tell you.

Zainab | 8 years ago | Reply Ch Nisar we support you on every step that you take.

Shamsi Mehboob | 8 years ago | Reply Well, Good Luck with UAE; didn't their Minister give the country a dressing down for its wishy-washy commitment to the war in Yemen ?

Lailajee | 8 years ago | Reply People of Karachi are with you, Chaudhary Nisar!

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