A source in the FIA said that the
investigation team failed to get any lead in the scam, as it remained unable to
record the statement of Ali Asad, the main character in the scam.
The team comprised of Director
FIA, Karachi , Mozamma Ali Jah and
PSO to Director General FIA, Mohammad Waseem. Shafiq Ahmed, an officer of the
data warehouse of National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA), also
accompanied the team to assist it in technical matters.
The investigation team remained
in the UK for
more than two weeks and NADRA bore all its expenditures during its stay there
on the directions of the Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
A fact confirmed by a senior
officer of NADRA who further told The Nation on the condition of anonymity that
the team was sent to London in haste on the directions of Interior Minister. He
cited this as a major explanation for the failure of the investigation team in
getting any lead or recording the statement of Ali Asad.
NADRA officer said Authority had
opposed the Interior Ministry’s directions that it would bear all expenditures
of the investigation team but had to bow down before the powerful Interior
Minister’s pressure. “When the team was dispatched to London ,
Interior Ministry neither took the Foreign Office in loop nor contacted the
British Home office,” he said while describing reasons of failure of the team
in recording the statement of main character in the visa scam.
According to the Interior
ministry, FIA team has submitted a report regarding progress in UK .
The team also said that several meetings were held with the British officials
in locating Asad but all in vain.
The visa scam had surfaced after
a British tabloid The Sun published that some persons might sneak into UK
on fake traveling documents as part of Pakistan ’s
Olympics squad. However, NADRA had dismissed the claim as base saying that its
system was secure and no body can get issued CNIC through fake identity from
its system.
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