LONDON, October 7: Former finance minister Ishaq Dar said on Sunday that he doesn’t have property anywhere outside Pakistan.
Dar refuted the claims of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Special Assistant Shehzad Akbar that he holds ownership of two apartments in London by calling it, ‘contrary to facts’, adding that the accusations are part of the campaign launched against him.
“If Shehzad Akbar is telling truth he should disclose the details of the apartments,” he said.
The former finance minister said that the government is levelling baseless allegations against him to deflect people’s attention from its failure in addressing genuine issues. He called the allegations part of PTI’s traditional politics.
Dar said that the PTI government is using the National Accountability Bureau for political victimisation.
An accountability court has ordered auction of Dar’s assets and confiscation of his bank accounts in Pakistan on a plea by the NAB.
NAB had filed the petition after the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader went to London for medical treatment and continues to abscond in corruption cases against him in the accountability court.
According to the documents, which detail the seized property by NAB, Dar and his wife have joint accounts in various banks in Islamabad and Lahore.
NAB also informed the court that the former finance minister is a shareholder in three companies based in Dubai along with owning a Mercedes and three flats. -Agencies
