Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The problem of super model Ayyan Ali regarding going abroad has become elevated as the widow of the deceased customs inspector approached the Supreme Court of Pakistan for making her as a party in the main criminal appeal.

Customs Inspector Ejaz Mehmood, who would have been a key witness in the alleged money laundering case against Ayyan Ali as he had recovered the currency from Ayyan Ali at the airport in March 2015, was shot dead at his residence on June 2, 2015.

However, Saima Ejaz widow of Ejaz Mehmood, the murdered customs inspector, filed an application for making her a party under Order V Rule 2 (2) read with Order XXXIII, Rule 6 of the Pakistan Supreme Court Rules 1980 through her counsel Shafqat Munir Malik. Saima Ejaz in her petition stated that an FIR was registered against Ayyan Ali after the recovery of 506,800 dollars from her suitcase following which the investigation officer Muhammad Saleem deposited the amount at the state warehouse whose in charge was Ejaz Mehmood, the widow’s husband.

She further stated that after two months of recovery her husband was shot dead by two unidentified persons at their residence.

“The deceased was the custodian of the case property and was under continuous threat and pressure to manoeuvre and manipulate the case property so as to favour the accused but he (Ejaz Mehmood) refused to succumb to nefarious ambitions of the respondent (Ayyan Ali) and her faithfuls,” stated the widow of the customs inspector in her petition.

“Furthermore, it is submitted that the deceased Ejaz Mehmood had been threatened and pressurised by the persons favouring respondent Ayyan Ali. Therefore, these facts prima facie involve the respondent Ayyan Ali in the murder of the petitioner’s (Saima) husband Ejaz Mehmood,” the petition further stated. She further contended that she was a necessary and proper party to the instant appeal inter alia on the above stated ground adding that Ayyan Ali was an influential lady and without joining the investigation of the FIR regarding the murder of the customs inspector she was planning to proceed abroad.