FIA summons three PML-N leaders in judge video scam.

Byline: Amir Wasim

ISLAMABAD -- The FedeAral Investigation Agency (FIA) has summoned three senior leaders of the PakAistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), including former prime minister Shahid KhaAqan Abbasi, to appear beAfore it next week to record their statements in the judge video scandal.

Sources said that besides Mr Abbasi, the notices had been issued by the FIA's Counter Terrorism Wing to PML-N secretary general Ahsan Iqbal and the party's parliamentary leader in the National Assembly KhaAwaja Asif for recording of their statements on March 9 and 10.

Mr Abbasi is required to visit the FIA offices in IslamAabad on March 9 and the other two PML-N leaders have been issued notices for appearances on March 10.

The three leaders were present at the press conference of PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz on July 6 last year at the party's Model Town secretariat in which a 'secretly recorded' video was played. In the video, accountability judge Arshad Malik was allegedly seen saying that he was pressurised and blackmailed to convict former priAme minister Nawaz ShaArif in the Al-Azizia reference.

Ms Nawaz had claimed that the video had been recorded by a 'PML-N sympathiser'.

Mr Abbasi and Mr Iqbal are presently in Karachi on a two-day visit in connection with the party's reorganisation matters.

PML-N Senator Pervaiz Rashid, the party's deputy secretary general Attaullah Tarar and another party leader, Azma Bokhari, had already appeared before a three-member FIA team, headed by Counter Terrorism Wing chief Babar Bakht Qureshi, holding investigations into the scam on the judge's complaint that the video had been tampered.

After his appearance before the FIA team in Lahore in December last year, Senator Rashid had...