ISLAMABAD: Farhat Shahzadi – popularly known as Farah Gogi, Farah Khan, Farah Gujjar, Fari and many other nicknames – has testified against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and his wife Bushra. denied the claims. Bibi, JEE News reported.
Speaking to JEE News on phone, the former first lady’s friend denied appearing as a witness against the former prime minister and his wife, calling the news baseless and false.
“Why and for what reasons will I become a witness against Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi? In Pakistan I may be targeted for political revenge, so I am out of the country,” she said, expressing her concerns. .
Farah said that he never held any government post or party post during the PTI government.
He said during the interview that ‘I did not have any official position in the Tehreek-e-Insaaf government and I did not have any party position’.
Earlier this week, JEE News learned from sources that Bushra Bibi’s trusted aide is highly likely to have sanctioned against him and Khan and is already cooperating with Pakistani authorities and is now almost a Been in touch with them for months.
Sources added that Gogi and her husband Ahsan Jameel Gujjar were told by the PTI leadership against cooperating with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and other legal forums.
According to sources, Farah had already shared important information with Pakistani officials and a working relationship had already developed between them.
Sources confirmed that Farah was asked to leave the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first week of May after the Pakistani government told the Gulf state that he was a wanted person and involved in corruption during his tenure in Dubai.
A highly reliable source confirmed that Farah has been “blacklisted”, meaning she is unable to enter the UAE on any legal basis due to the cases against her. After arriving in Italy, Farah began talking to Pakistani officials, and progress has been made.
She left Pakistan a day after the PTI chief’s government was dissolved following a no-confidence vote in April 2022, becoming the first high-profile figure to flee the country as speculation had already grown that she would will be arrested and questioned about their role in it. Dealings with Bushra Bibi and his direct role in running government affairs.
She reached Dubai from Pakistan and then returned to Dubai after visiting America. She was using the UAE as her base – even the Pakistan government asked the authorities to take action as there was an extradition treaty between Pakistan and the UAE.
In May, the FIA submitted a written request to Interpol seeking Farah’s arrest and red warrant, in connection with cases of money laundering and appointment of officials through illegal means for political influence. was referred to. FIA officials say that he has already been declared a fugitive by the court in the money laundering case.
According to FIA officials, Farah is absconding abroad against whom irrefutable evidence of money laundering has been collected.
