Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Secretary General Omar Ayub informed the Federal Investigation Agency on Wednesday that he could not appear before the body as he was “busy”.
The development comes after the FIA’s cybercrime team started an investigation into a post on X, formerly Twitter, which was attributed to the former prime minister Imran Khan.
While Hasan and Gohar reached the office, Ayub told the FIA that he was busy with a pre-budget engagement and appearing in courts as he was nominated in several terrorism cases.
Ayub, in the response, sent through his legal team, termed the show-cause notice “defamatory” and said that “unlawful questions” were asked “without referring to any specific query”.
He added that the notice was extensively publicised on mainstream and social media, thereby “causing harassment, unwarranted intimidation and injurious propaganda”.
The response noted that the FIA is neither an outfit of historians nor is above the Supreme Court and two high courts whose judges gave the Hamoodur Rehman Commission report.
“Therefore, this notice is aimed at persecution of [the] most popular leader of the country Imran Khan and our client who is the Secretary General of his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.”
