Hamid Saeed Kazmi handed over to FIA on five-day remand

ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad court handed over former religious affairs minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a five day physical remand on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.

The FIA had requested the court to hand over Kazmi for a 14-day-long remand.

Earlier on Tuesday, the FIA had arrested Kazmi after a court refused to grant him a pre-arrest bail in a case relating to his alleged corruption in arranging residential accommodation for Pakistani Haj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia last year.

Mr Kazmi’s lawyer Malik Jawad Khalid had earlier told reporters: “It is a fit case for bail because the FIA has no substantial incriminating material against my client who is being implicated in the case on political and sectarian grounds”.