{"id":4055,"date":"2023-01-05T09:10:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T09:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2023-01-05T09:10:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T09:10:06","slug":"prohibited-funding-case-court-orders-imran-to-appear-before-investigation-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=4055","title":{"rendered":"Prohibited funding case: Court orders Imran to appear before investigation officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special (banking) court on Thursday extended the interim pre-arrest bail of former prime minister and PTI chairman Imran Khan in a prohibited funding case and directed Imran Khan to ensure presence before the investigation officer.<br \/>\nA banking court Judge Rakshanda Shaheen heard the pre-arrest bail plea in the prohibited funding case against Imran Khan and other PTI leaders.<br \/>\nThe PTI chief Imran Khan\u2019s request to investigate him at Zaman Park Lahore was rejected by the court.<br \/>\nThe court ordered PTI chairman Imran Khan to become part of the investigation process and appear before the investigation officer.<br \/>\nMoreover, the special court accepted Imran Khan\u2019s plea seeking today\u2019s exemption from appearance.<br \/>\nThe court extended the pre-arrest interim bail of the former prime minister until January 31 in a prohibited funding case.<br \/>\nEarlier, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted its reply to Lahore High (LHC) regarding the prohibited funding case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).<br \/>\nThe FIA maintained that the agency was not harassing former prime minister Imran Khan, reiterating that the call-up notices issued by FIA to PTI Chairman were in accordance with the law.<br \/>\nIt is pertinent to note here that the Investigation Agency had registered a case against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and 10 others over accusations of receiving foreign funding. The case had been registered by the FIA Corporate Banking Circle.<br \/>\nThe case\u2019s First Information Report (FIR) stated that the accused including the former premier violated Foreign Exchange Act and all of the nominated persons were beneficiaries of the private bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special (banking) court on Thursday extended the interim pre-arrest bail of former prime minister and PTI chairman Imran Khan in a prohibited funding case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4056,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}