LONDON: A former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leader in the UK has alleged that she has been threatened with kidnap and arrest after she threatened to “expose” a few prominent PTI leaders, local media reports have informed.
Former Central Deputy Secretary Information of PTI in the UK, Nadia Chaudhary who in a viral video message alleged that she had “helped” PTI and a government agency by providing “crucial information” on the Panamagate matter. The dramatic video, recorded outside a posh tower block of luxury flats in Islamabad, claimed that “this could be my last call/communication before I am kidnapped and disappeared”.
Nadia Chaudhary further claimed that she has passed “evidence” in 2016 about Avenfield Apartments to PTI’s former Information Secretary Naeem-ul-Haque who “chose not to tell Imran Khan and Jahangir Tareen” about her involvement in the matter.
She then claimed that the “credit was given to Zulfi Bukhari who did nothing”.
Chaudhary also claimed that she has never taken money, sought no position in PTI and never applied for a ticket.
However, Naeem-ul-Haque rejected all accusations and said that Nadia only brought a Pakistani doctor from England whose brother was the lawyer who acted on behalf of sellers of the Mayfair flats to the Sharif family in early 90s and that no evidence was provided.
Nadia went out of communication soon after the video was posted and her lawyer, Yasser Latif Hamdani tweeted that she was missing. However, he later confirmed that she was fine and not missing.
Hamdani claimed in a post that Nadia was “about to name before the Ombudsman” two PTI leaders who “allegedly have sexually harassed her especially one of them who attempted to sexually assault her at KP house.
A family source said that Nadia’s father has arrived in Pakistan to be with his daughter and also British High Commission is in touch with the family after the video caused panic.
Nadia Chaudhary is amongst the founders of PTI in the UK and has been an important figure in its campaigns. She, however, left for Pakistan after 2013 elections and has been spending most of her time there. She has been seen at meetings with PTI leaders and other public events.
Her father is a well-known British Pakistani businessman who owns several outlets of a global fast-food chain across the UK. He has been a senior director of the UK Pakistan Chamber of Commerce & Industries (UKPCCI). Her husband is a doctor in London and has stayed back there.
from Pakistan Today
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