Pakistan, June 13 -- The Islamabad High Court on Thursday restrained the Federal Investigation (FIA) from "harassing" former senator and prominent human rights defender Farhatullah Babar.
FIA Anti-Corruption Circle (ACC) opened an inquiry against Babar in March over alleged "corruption, tax evasion and illicit asset accumulation". Babar appeared before the FIA in Islamabad on March 28 to respond to the notice over a complaint filed by a citizen named Touseef Abbas in Rawalpindi.
The senator, who is the head of PPP's Human Rights Cell, filed a writ petition through lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chatha with the Ministry of Interior and FIA as respondents, urging the court to quash an anti-corruption inquiry filed against him and restrai...