Ex-presid­ent's plea conten­ds that parall­el probes by NAB, FIA are illega­l and agains­t SC orders­Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Friday filed an application in the Supreme Court (SC) seeking orders to bar the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) from pursuing its investigation in the fake accounts case, Express News reported. It states that the court’s orders were being violated as the FIA was still continuing its investigation in the fake accounts case. The application states that NAB and FIA’s parallel investigations in the fake accounts case were illegal and in violation of the SC’s orders. Zardari’s plea requests the SC to order the JIT and FIA to stop their investigative pursuits and remain limited to their court-mandated role of assisting the NAB investigation. The former president’s move to approach the apex court came a day after a banking court in Karachi extended his pre-arrest bail in the fake accounts case till March 5.

Source: The Express Tribune February 15, 2019 09:22 UTC