Woman’s harassment: Imran orders action against FIA officials for negligence

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday ordered strict action against the officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) over their failure to decide on repeated complaints of harassment by a woman.

Khan asked the director general (DG) FIA to immediately suspend the FIA officials concerned so as to ensure a transparent inquiry, the Prime Minister’s Office said. He also called for providing relief to the woman at the earliest, saying no complaint should be ignored.

The woman had lodged a complaint with Pakistan Citizen Portal against the FIA officials, who took no action over her five-time complaint of harassment from December 16, 2019 to June 13, 2021.

On facing harassment, the woman had quit her job at a university and approached the FIA, and due to non-cooperation by the FIA officials, she allegedly made an attempt to commit suicide. The PM Office said despite reopening the complaint twice, the FIA failed to fulfill its responsibility. The Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit in this regard issued a letter to the DG FIA for an inquiry of the officials concerned. The inquiry report will be submitted to Khan on July 20, the PM Office added.