FIA gets two-day remand of Lahore reporter in data leak case.

ISLAMABAD -- A local court Saturday remanded a reporter, accused of a tax data leak of former army chief Gen (retired) Qamar Javed Bajwa and his family, in custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for two days. The FIA arrested Shahid Aslam, who is affiliated with Pakistan's Bol News channel, in Lahore this week, in connection with the data leak. He was presented before an Islamabad district and sessions court on Saturday, where the FIA requested the judge to grant the agency sevenday remand of the accused. 'The accused, together with co-accused Ahmed Noorani, bribed FBR (Federal Board of Revenue) employees, Arshad Ali Qureshi and others, and obtained tax record data of government functionaries, senior army officers and businesspersons,' the agency said in its remand request. 'Of which, accused Ahmed Noorani has uploaded the...

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