PTI Senator Saifullah Niazi arrested 'by FIA'

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2022-10-07 14:46:59
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Saifullah Niazi was reportedly taken into custody by the Federal Investigation Agency"s (FIA) Cyber Crime Unit on Friday.

The senator was reportedly taken into custody on charges of running an "unauthorized" website that was being used for illegal fundraising.

Senior PTI leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain also took to Twitter to comment on Niazi"s reported arrest: "After yesterday"s press conference by Shehbaz Sharif and the subsequent arrest of Tariq Shafi, Hamid Zaman and Saif Niazi, it is clear that the government is panicking and afraid after the announcement of "Azadi March "."

The FIA, however, denied the news of Niazi"s arrest and claimed that it also came to know about it through the media.

Earlier, the agency raided Niazi"s house and also seized his laptop and mobile phone.

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Hamid Zaman arrested

PTI founder member Hamid Zaman was also arrested by the FIA on Friday in a foreign funding case.

Zaman was taken into custody from his office on Waris Road in Lahore.

Sources also revealed that in 2013, Zaman was the secretary of the Insaf Trust, which received $625,000 in its accounts, adding that the party"s social organization did not comply with rules and regulations.