Karachi: Personal problems continue to plague the captain of the Pakistan cricket team, Babar Azam. A sessions court in Lahore has ordered the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Circle to register a first information report (FIR) against him in a harassment case. The order from Judge Hamid Hussain came Thursday after a hearing in Lahore on a petition filed by a woman. The woman identified as Hamiza Mukhtar claimed she had been getting threatening messages on her Whats App. These messages are threatening her with dire consequences after she filed a case against Babar Azam.
At the hearing the FIA officials informed the court about the revent developments. They said after Hamiza filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Cell she started getting such messages. When they started an inquiry they found one of the numbers used belonged to Azam.
Hamiza has alleged that she was constantly receiving ‘threatening messages’ from different mobile numbers on WhatsApp. She said that unknown persons also used to ‘threaten and blackmail her. They said they have her objectionable pictures and videos. They will upload (them) on social media in order to harm her repute in society and ruin her life’.
She said she had approached the FIA to trace the unknown numbers and they found one of them was registered to Azam. Two other numbers belonged to two women, Maryam Ahmed and Salme BB. Both of them were served notices to join the FIA’s inquiry proceedings to record their version.
The court was told that of the three, only Ahmed appeared in front of the agency. She denied knowing the petitioner or sending her abusive messages.
According to the report, Ahmed had stated that she would provide her mobile phone for technical analysis but she failed to do so.
The FIA said Azam’s brother Faisal appeared on behalf of the cricketer. He requested the FIA to ‘wait for some time’ to record Babar’s statement. However, Azam has not yet appeared for the inquiry, the FIA report said.
In his order, the judge wrote that since a regular inquiry had already commenced on the petitioner’s complaint, the ‘respondent is ordered to proceed further with respect to registration of FIR against the culprits within the stipulated time after [completion] of legal formalities’.
Hamiza has also filed harassment, sexual abuse and other cases against Azam