Pandora Paper Report Released, many ministers of offshore companies come out

 

Pandora Paper Report Released, many ministers of offshore companies come out

 

·         The International Consortium of Investigative Ghetto Journalists (ICIJ) has released Pandora Papers containing the names of 700 Pakistanis. Pakistanis owning offshore companies include current and former ministers, former military generals, businessmen and their relatives.

 

·        The Pandora Papers include Federal Minister for Finance Shaukat Tareen, Federal Minister for Industry Khusro Bakhtiar, Federal Minister for Water Resources and PML-Q leader Monis Elahi, Punjab Senior Minister Abdul Aleem Khan, former Federal Minister and Senator Faisal Wawda. Also in the Pandora Papers are former Sindh provincial minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, former finance minister Ishaq Dar's son Ali Dar, former Pakistani ambassador to the United States Ali Jahangir Siddiqui, executive and owner of Bollywood News Shoaib Sheikh.

 

·         Ahsan Latif, son-in-law of former Punjab Governor General (retd) Khalid Maqbool, former military secretary to Pervez Musharraf, Lieutenant General (retd) Shafaatullah Shah, Major General (retd) Nusrat Naeem, former Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Finance and Revenue Waqar Masood. Sahibzada's name is also included in the Pandora Papers.

 

·         Besides, General (retd) Afzal Muzaffar's son Hassan Muzaffar, Lt Gen (retd) Tanveer Tahir's wife Zahra Tanveer, Lt Gen (retd) Ali Quli Khan's sister Shahnaz Sajjad, former Air Marshal Abbas Khattak's sons Omar and Uhad Khattak The names of are also included in the Pandora Papers.

 

·         The Pandora Papers also include Bashir Dawood, a well-known businessman, Naveed Maghis Sheikh, owner of Imperial Sugar Mills, Arif Usmani, President of National Bank of Pakistan, Arif Shafi, Arif Naqvi, founder of Abraaj Group and Asif Hafeez.

 

·        Remember that ICIJ has prepared Pandora Papers after two years of hard work. More than 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries took part in the scandal. It is the largest journalistic research in human history to date, containing 11 million classified documents.

 

·         The same organization of journalists released the Panama Papers in 2016, which included the names of 444 Pakistanis. Because of this, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif had to resign from his post.