LONDON – Prime Minister Imran Khan has intensified efforts for recoveringthe looted money of Pakistan from abroad.
PM Khan had tasked Special Assistant Shazad Akbar for the assignment whohad gone to England for consultations with the British authorities andrelevant legal forums.
Shahzad Akbar has claimed that he spent three days of “useful meetings” inLondon on the issues of accountability.
Mirza Shahzad Akbar, who was appointed last week as the Special Assistantto the PM on accountability and sat in the first cabinet meeting with thePM, announced on a social media site that he was in London in relation tothe “repatriation of unlawful assets to Pakistan”.
He wrote: “Headed back to Pakistan from London after 3 days of usefulmeetings in our efforts to implement PM Imran Khan’s promise for theaccountability of the corrupt & repatriation of unlawful assets toPakistan.”
Shahzad Akbabr didn’t respond to questions about his meetings in London buta spokesman of Pakistan High Commission said that the high commission wasnot aware that the Minister of State was in London and that it had noinvolvement in setting up any meetings.
Official meetings are arranged and coordinated by Pakistan High Commissionand its not clear whether the PM’s Assistant on Accountability arrangedthese meetings directly or met legal firms to seek opinions. Meeting withthe government officials at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) andthe Home Office would not have been possible without the officialinvolvement either from the Foreign Office in Pakistan or Pakistan HighCommission in London.
Shahzad Akbar had commented soon after his appointment that this is “a bigfirst step for beginning of Naya and transparent Pakistan”.