Shujaat describes Zafar as 'a mere stooge'

Commenting on the news item relating to suspension of FIA additional director general Zafar Qureshi, Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has termed Zafar Qureshi as a mere stooge and said there is a limit of everything but when something exceeds the limit facts have to be revealed.
The fact is that different attempts are being made for the achievement of the agenda of Mian Nawaz Sharif, he said, adding: "FIA after completing investigations submitted the challan of NICL in the court." He said it may be very rare that anybody knowing allegations on him returned from London and appeared before the court and informed that instead of seeking bail he would welcome hearing of the case, which is already in progress. As far as the case is related, it revolves around a person who purchased some land and sold to NICL at a very high price and later the deal was cancelled and he refunded all the money. The name of Moonis Elahi is not in the FIR of this case and there is no evidence of his involvement in this sale and purchase, he added.
Shujat further said that the prosecution witnesses were forced to sign statements, on the basis of which Moonis Elahi's bail was rejected by the High Court. Later the same prosecution witnesses have revealed the facts in the court. He further said that a lady bank officer who purported to have said in her statement earlier that Moonis Elahi called her in his office to open a ghost account but she stated before the court that she is seeing Elahi first time here in the court. Similarly the other prosecution witnesses narrated the facts.
PML President added that on the basis of the statements of the witnesses in the court, Moonis Elahi moved an application for his acquittal, which brought opposition political and non-political personalities into action. When the FIA made routine transfers of the officials who remained posted at one place for ten to fifteen years, these elements termed these transfers as vindictive, he added.
He further said that his family has faced very tuff times in the past. Moonis Elahi has spent only five months in jail yet, while his grandfather Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi Shaheed has spent six years in different jails including one year in Kohlu Jail (Balochistan). Concluding, he said we are not worried at all but know very well how to face steadfastly the intrigues of their political opponents, and tell the people how efforts are being made for the achievement of the agenda of Nawaz Sharif.