Claim: Journalist Waseem Badami recently asserted that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had consolidated all of Maulana Tariq Jameel’s bank accounts, totalling PKR 49 billion.
Fact: Waseem Badami’s video clip, originally recorded in 2023, has been repeatedly circulated on social media without proper context. In 2023, the FIA issued press clarifications—and later reiterated to Soch Fact Check—that no investigation or inquiry was ever initiated regarding Maulana Tariq Jameel’s finances. No such inquiry was pursued in 2025 either.
Starting on 20 March 2025, social media users began sharing a video clip from Waseem Badami’s TV show, in which he stated:
“[Translation] The FIA has consolidated all the bank accounts of the renowned Islamic scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel. They found that these bank accounts contained PKR 49 billion. This leads to two questions: Why did the FIA consolidate his accounts? And how did they find PKR 49 billion? How did this happen and what happened?”
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check contacted Mehmood Ali Khokar, a member of the FIA’s media wing, who confirmed that there was never any inquiry into Maulana Tariq Jameel’s wealth by the FIA.
Soch Fact Check also got in touch with Wasim Badami’s producer Adnan Naqvi, who confirmed that the episode aired on 19 January 2023 and shared the complete segment with us, which can be viewed here.
In his program, Badami actually invited Maulana Tariq Jameel’s son to clarify that the claim is fake; Badami never made the claim himself, but only attempted to clarify it by interviewing his son.
On 19 January 2023, Geo Fact Check published an article in which two FIA officials were quoted:
“The government-run Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is neither probing the bank details of Tariq Jamil nor has it sealed any of his accounts in Pakistan, confirmed two separate officials of the agency,” the article said.
All available evidence and official clarifications confirm that the claim is false. The narrative that Maulana Tariq Jameel possesses PKR 49 billion in his bank accounts is a misrepresentation that has been debunked by multiple fact-checkers and by statements from FIA officials.
Where did the claim originate from?
We found that the claim was first shared on 15 January 2023, by a Facebook user named Zafar Naqvi. In this clip he is heard saying that he is breaking exclusive news about Maulana Tariq Jameel’s bank accounts. He further claimed that Farah Gogi (also known as Farah Shehzadi) – a friend of Bushra Bibi, Imran Khan’s wife – Pervez Elahi, Moonis Elahi, Bushra Bibi and others were involved in an expansive network of corruption with Maulana Tariq Jameel’s son.
Naqvi also claims that Jameel’s son kept depositing the money earned from these networks in three different bank accounts, which belonged to Tariq Jameel and now they have all been sealed. He claims that FIA officially began an investigation of this network’s activities.
We have already proven in the article above that this is a false claim.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found that the claim was widely shared on Facebook. Some of them can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
We also found it on Instagram.
It was also shared on X. Some of these posts can be found here, here, here, and here. PMLN Senator Dr Afnan Ullah Khan also spread this false claim on X.
Conclusion: The FIA has not discovered PKR 49 billion in Maulana Tariq Jameel’s bank accounts.
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