*ISLAMABAD – Information Minister Shibli Faraz has advised Prime MinisterImran Khan’s Special Assistant on Information and Broadcasting Lt Gen (r)Asim Saleem Bajwa to issue a “clarification” over a story that waspublished on a website a few days ago.*
“For Bajwa sahab, my advice would be that he issues a clarification,” Farazsaid while addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Monday. He addedthat he doesn’t think what is being said about the former general is true.
Lt Gen (r) Bajwa is also serving as the chairman of the China-PakistanEconomic Corridor Authority.
On August 27, a website known as *Fact Focus* published a *storylink*,claiming that Lt Gen (r) Bajwa’s family has set up 99 companies in fourcountries, including a pizza franchise with 133 restaurants.
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The website further claimed that Lt Gen (r) Bajwa’s wife is a “shareholder”in at least 86 companies. Of them, 71 were set up in the US, seven in theUAE and four in Canada.
