{"id":18518,"date":"2023-08-08T20:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18518"},"modified":"2023-08-08T20:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:04:14","slug":"fia-arrests-imran-khans-lawyer-naeem-panjotha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fia-arrests-imran-khans-lawyer-naeem-panjotha\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA arrests Imran Khan&#8217;s lawyer Naeem Panjotha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan\u2019s lawyer Naeem Haider Panjotha.<\/p>\n<p>According to a private news channel report, claimed that the lawyer had gone to FIA headquarters as he was summoned for investigation in the social media posts of Judge Humayun Dilawar.<\/p>\n<p>PTI lawyer Sher Afzal Khan Marwat tweeted that Panjotha\u2019s clerk had confirmed the arrest but it was not clear whether it was a formal arrest or not as the first information report cannot be \u201cregistered directly and without permission of Islamabad High Court\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaeem Haider Panjotha Adv has reportedly been arrested by FIA. He went to FIA headquarters to join inquiry in Humayun Dilawar&#8217;s Facebook posts,\u201d the PTI leader tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Marwat said that Panjotha\u2019s arrest \u201cwould unite the legal fraternity\u201d and would not stop the PTI chairman\u2019s legal team from discharging their \u201cprofessional obligations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/police-arrests-murad-saeeds-father-in-swat.html\">Police arrests Murad Saeed\u2019s father in Swat<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the direction of the IHC, the Cybercrime Circle of FIA had launched an inquiry against Panjotha and had directed him to appear before the inquiry team at the Cybercrime Reporting Centre in Islamabad today.<\/p>\n<p>In the summon, the inquiry officer had asked the lawyer to clear his position in the interest of justice for a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the IHC referred the \u201ccontroversial\u201d Facebook posts of Judge Dilawar \u2014 who sentenced PTI chief Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case \u2014 to the FIA.<\/p>\n<p>On August 5, Additional District and Sessions Judge Dilawar sentenced former prime minister Khan to three years in prison in the Toshakhana case, sending shockwaves across the party.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI chief was arrested shortly after being convicted, which drew a strong response from the party.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was found guilty of misusing his premiership to buy and sell gifts in state possession that were received during visits abroad and worth more than 140 million Pakistani rupees ($635,000), allegations which he continues to deny.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI chief was seeking the transfer of his case from Judge Dilawar&#8217;s court as he alleged he was biased towards him and had shown certain posts of his Facebook account to IHC.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court was informed that the judge had denied that they were his posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan\u2019s lawyer Naeem Haider Panjotha. According to a private news channel report, claimed that the lawyer had gone to FIA headquarters as he was summoned for investigation in the social media posts of Judge Humayun Dilawar. PTI lawyer Sher Afzal Khan Marwat tweeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[849,1203,9947,9948,296,317],"class_list":["post-18518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-federal-investigation-agency","tag-islamabad-high-court","tag-judge-humayun-dilawar","tag-sher-afzal-khan-marwat","tag-fia","tag-ihc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}