The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday “categorically rejected” what it said were “preposterous” claims by PTI leader Mirza Shahzad Akbar about the alleged involvement of state officials in last year’s acid attack on him.
Akbar was a former special assistant to the prime minister during the PTI government. He had left Pakistan soon after PTI founder Imran Khan was ousted through a no-confidence motion in April 2022. He had reportedly left for Dubai from where he departed for the United Kingdom.