ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan has constituted an investigation cell to probe all those citizens named in the Pandora Papers.
He announced the development in a series of tweets, in which he also mentioned the functions of the investigation cell.
The minister said that the cell would seek an explanation from all those citizens who were named in the Pandora Papers to publicize the facts.
“It is very unfortunate that names of some major media houses’ owners have also been included in the Pandora Papers while allegations of money laundering have also been leveled against some of them.
Therefore, the ministry of information and broadcasting is going to launch a transparent investigation in this regard while the PEMRA is being asked to seek explanation [from them],” he tweeted.
Meanwhile, State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said that the investigation cell constituted by Prime Minister Imran Khan would determine whether the public office holders named in Pandora Papers had declared their offshore assets in tax
returns or not.
In a tweet, he said if it is found in the investigation report of the cell that the public office holders had not declared their offshore assets, then a corruption case would be referred to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
In case of money laundering, the matter would be sent to FIA while the FBR would investigate if the person is not a public office holder, he added.
