Leaked Video of Rabia Anum Anchor of Geo News

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Leaked Video of Rabia Anum Anchor of Geo News by umar-akmal LONDON: Sarfaraz Merchant, one of the central characters in the MQM-related money laundering investigation, said in the Geo programme Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Ke Saath on Monday that he was ready to come to Pakistan to record his statement to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). He said FIA Director Inaam Ghani has assured him security and the removal of his reservations. He said he was waiting for a new letter from them and would announce his programme after receiving the letter. He said he would share what he possessed with the Pakistan government and the FIA. Earlier, he told the FIA investigators that he will be unable to appear before it on March 15, 2016 unless the FIA did not set its record straight and put the whole context of the investigation right. Sarfaraz Merchant set the record straight by telling the FIA that he didn’t originally accuse the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) or its leader Altaf Hussain of receiving money from RAW, India’s main spy agency, but it was Scotland Yard, showing proof. Sarfaraz Merchant said he had undeniable proof with him showing that the MQM took money from Indian sources and he indicated that he will cooperate with the FIA once amends had been made to the summon, the record set straight and inappropriate language and the threat of punishment withdrawn. Sarfaraz Merchant elaborated that it was Scotland Yard that had originally said that the MQM took money from Indian government sources. He said it’s a matter of record that the MQM leaders, including M Anwar and Tariq Mir, accepted before the Scotland Yard investigators that they had received money — millions of pounds — from India for several years. Merchant said that he came to know about the evidence of the MQM’s involvement with RAW during his recorded interview with the police in London when he saw the shocking evidence when the police investigators revealed it to him. Merchant said that he was aware — and has proof — that the MQM took money from RAW but he was not alone in saying that; Scotland Yard had said it in writing too. Merchant said that his only issue was with the FIA letter “the way it has been presented and written”. He said the MQM’s involvement with RAW is a serious matter and must be dealt with at the highest level. This correspondent has obtained a copy of the hard-hitting letter written by Sarfaraz Merchant in response to the hurriedly-written summons issued by the FIA to him, urging him to appear before the committee mandated to investigate the alleged links of the MQM with RAW. The FIA was forced into action after Sarfraz Merchant said in a world exclusive with Geo News’ flagship current affairs show ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath’ that he had been asked by the Scotland Yard investigators during recorded interviews if he was aware that the MQM was in the pay of the Indian government sources. Merchant said that he had not “levelled any allegation on any political party or its leadership”. He told the FIA that his interview on Geo News was “in connection with a leaked document pertaining to a criminal inquiry pending in the United Kingdom” — i.e. the money-laundering investigation under the Proceeds of Crimes Act involving Altaf Hussain, M Anwar, Tariq Mir, Sarfraz Merchant and two others. “I had given my views on the contents of that document and some observations of the concerned law enforcement agency i.e. the Scotland Yard, which were brought to my notice being a party to the case during my under caution interview on 15th of April, 2015. It is therefore incorrect to suggest that I have alleged something on a political party,” stressed Sarfraz Merchant, while explaining that it was not him but the Scotland Yard which believed that the MQM had received money from the Indian government in violation of the UK as well as Pakistani electoral laws. Sarfraz Merchant told the FIA bosses that allegations about the MQM’s links with RAW emerged first in June last year and he wondered what took Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government so long to come into action when the nature of the allegations was of shocking and scandalous nature concerning directly to the security of Pakistan. Merchant said that the “subject matter of the criminal investigation in the UK is known to all and has been frequently discussed in the media and there is no confusion that the issue is directly related to the security of Pakistan.” Issuing a hard-hitting critique of the very poor handling of the case by the Government of Pakistan, Merchant said in the letter: “I am surprised to learn that you have initiated action at such a belated stage. It would have been proper to contact UK authorities more than a year ago for mutual assistance and simultaneous initiation of proceedings in Pakistan; unfortunately this was not done.” Sarfraz Merchant expressed his “disappointment on the language and text of ‘your’ letter which appears to be an attempt to intimidate and pressurise me by indicating criminal action against me and also placing the entire onus of the case on my shoulders”. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had requested Sarfraz Merchant to assist the FIA in its inquiry but the FIA issued a threatening summon to Merchant. Merchant took an exception to the fact that the FIA summon was signed off by the Commercial Banking Circle. Merchant said he believed that “matters of national security are required to be handled more professionally and not as a typical case of Commercial Banking Circle”. Merchant explained that he was a “responsible and patriotic citizen” of Pakistan and he felt “obliged to render complete assistance in a matter involving security and integrity of the country in accordance with law, however the manner in which the case is being handled, especially the manner in which the summon has been issued, reflects that importance and gravity of the issue has not been understood by your agency”. Sarfraz Merchant concluded: “Under such circumstances I will not be able to appear on the 15th of March, 2016 for giving my statement until the format/contents of your un-dated letter delivered to me by DHL and through Pakistan High Commission, London through post received on 11/03/2016 and 12/03/2016 are corrected referred in Paragraph No3 of this letter”.