Pakistan Army leader Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s own circle of relatives individuals and household have become billionaires at some stage in his six-yr tenure, making belongings 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 statistics. The FactFocus internet site, which describes itself as a “Pakistan-primarily based totally virtual media information company 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 statistics of Gen Bajwa’s own circle of relatives, the present day marketplace fee of the regarded belongings and enterprise of the navy leader, each inside and out of doors Pakistan, amounted to ₹ 12.7 billion.
The document, launched days in advance of Gen Bajwa’s scheduled retirement later this month, claimed that the belongings of Gen Bajwa’s wife, Ayesha Amjad, went from 0 in 2016 to ₹ 2.2 billion (declared and regarded) in six years. It said the quantity did now no longer encompass residential plots, business plots and homes given with the aid of using the Army to her husband.
The document additionally alleged that the overall really well worth of the declared belongings of Mahnoor Sabir (Gen Bajwa’s daughter-in-regulation) jumped from 0 in ultimate week of October 2018 to ₹ 1,271 million on November 2, 2018, at the same time as the belongings of Mahnoor’s sister Hamna Naseer went from 0 in 2016 to “billions” with the aid of using 2017.
Furthermore, the tax returns of Sabir Hameed — the Army leader’s son’s father-in-regulation — have been much less than 1,000,000 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 info of Gen Bajwa’s own circle of relatives individuals have been launched on line with the aid of using the internet site.
According to a statement, Dar took note of the “unlawful and unwarranted leakage of tax data of the own circle of relatives individuals of General Qamar Javed Bajwa”. “This is in reality violative of the whole confidentiality of tax data that the Law provides,” he turned into quoted as announcing withinside the statement.
The minister stated that during view of “this extreme 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 an instantaneous research into the violation of tax regulation and breach Federal Bureau of Revenue data, affix duty and put up a document inside 24 hours. So a ways the Army has now no longer commented at the Fact Focus document.