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Pak Army Chief’s Family Members Made Billions During His Tenure: Report

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Pak Army Chief's Family Members Made Billions During His Tenure: Report

Pakistan Army leader Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s own circle of relatives individuals and spouse and children have become billionaires at some stage in his six-yr tenure, making property amounting to ₹ 12.7 billion, a Pakistani internet site has claimed, prompting the authorities to reserve a probe on Monday into the “unlawful and unwarranted” leak in their tax facts.

The FactFocus internet site, which describes itself as a “Pakistan-primarily based totally virtual media information organization operating on data-primarily based totally investigative information stories”, shared the alleged wealth statements of Gen Bajwa and his own circle of relatives from 2013 to 2021 on its page.

According to the document concerning the alleged tax facts of Gen Bajwa’s own circle of relatives, the modern marketplace cost of the acknowledged property and enterprise of the military leader, each inside and outdoor Pakistan, amounted to ₹ 12.7 billion.

The document, launched days beforehand of Gen Bajwa’s scheduled retirement later this month, claimed that the property of Gen Bajwa’s wife, Ayesha Amjad, went from 0 in 2016 to ₹ 2.2 billion (declared and acknowledged) in six years.

It said the quantity did now no longer encompass residential plots, industrial plots and homes given via way of means of the Army to her husband.

The document additionally alleged that the entire really well worth of the declared property of Mahnoor Sabir (Gen Bajwa’s daughter-in-Law) jumped from 0 in closing week of October 2018 to ₹ 1,271 million on November 2, 2018, whilst the property of Mahnoor’s sister Hamna Naseer went from 0 in 2016 to “billions” via way of means of 2017.

Furthermore, the tax returns of Sabir Hameed — the Army leader’s son’s father-in-Law— had been much less than one million in 2013 but “withinside the coming years, he have become a billionaire”, the internet site claimed.

On Monday, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar ordered a probe after the tax and wealth information of Gen Bajwa’s own circle of relatives individuals had been launched on line via way of means of the internet site.

According to a statement, Dar took note of the “unlawful and unwarranted leakage of tax statistics of the own circle of relatives individuals of General Qamar Javed Bajwa”.

“This is honestly violative of the entire confidentiality of tax statistics that the Law provides,” he turned into quoted as announcing withinside the statement.

The minister stated that during view of “this critical lapse at the a part of to-date unknown functionaries the Finance minister” he directed Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Revenue Tariq Mehmood Pasha to individually lead a direct research into the violation of tax regulation and breach Federal Bureau of Revenue data, affix obligation and publish a document inside 24 hours.