Shaukat Tarin received a call-up notice from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday, inviting him for questioning on a call he had with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s finance minister Taimoor Saleem Jhagra regarding a letter to the IMF (IMF).
The PTI leader has been requested to appear before the FIA on September 21 at 10:00 AM. The letter warned that failing to show up would mean you would have nothing to say in support of your defense.
The PTI leader called the finance ministers of Punjab and KP last month in order to request that they write letters to the IMF withdrawing from the promise for the surplus budget before the IMF board meeting to approve Pakistan’s rescue package.
The audio leaks supported the theory that the KP finance minister’s letter to Miftah Ismail in August, in which he threatened to renege on his IMF promise, was an intentional attempt to undermine the government’s efforts to stabilize the economy.
Shaukat Tarin may be heard asking Jhagra if he wrote the letter in the audio that was leaked.”I’m headed your way. I still have the last letter. The KP finance minister had responded, “I will send the letter to you after I have written it.
Tarin gave Jhagra the directive to concentrate the majority of his message on the devastation brought on by the province’s floods.”The first problem [of the letter] would be that we need major financial aid,” Tarin told the KP finance minister, adding that he had already told Punjab’s finance minister Muhammad Mohsin Khan Leghari about it.He added that no one gave some money and admitted that it was a kind of blackmail.
