List of Pakistanis named in Dubai property leaks saga

A global investigative journalism project named, Dubai Unlocked, revealed the details of several Pakistani politicians, bureaucrats, military men, lawmakers, criminals, and money launders, who own properties in upscale areas of the Gulf country.

According to the report, almost 17,000 Pakistanis were named in the leaks and their combined value of properties was estimated at around $11 billion.

The leaked data provides a detailed overview of hundreds of thousands of properties in Dubai and information about their ownership or usage, largely from 2020 and 2022.

Here are some notable Pakistanis listed in the leaks:

1. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

2. Aseefa Bhutto Zardari

3. Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari

4. Hussain Nawaz Sharif

5. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s wife

6. Abdul Ghani Majid

7. Ghulam Abbas Zardari

8. Hamid Samoo

9. Haji Haroon (Director H&H Exchange Pvt Ltd and former president Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan)

10. Atif Abdul Aziz Polani

11. CFO Omni Group Aslam Masood and his wife

12. Sohrab Dinshaw

13. Altaf Khanani's son, daughter, brother, and nephew

14. Sharjeel Memon and family members

15. Senator Faisal Vawda

16. Farah Gogi

17. Sher Afzal Marwat

18. Gen Pervez Musharraf (Late)

19. Shaukat Aziz

20. Hamid Mukhtar Shah

21. PPP MNA Mirza Ikhtiar Baig and his brother Ishtiaq Baig 

22. PPP's Owais Muzaffar Tappi and his spouse

23. PML-N MNA Ehsanul Haq Bajwa

24. Former CM Balochistan Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, his wife and daughter

25. BNP's Sardar Akhtar Mengal

26. Malik Riaz's wife Bina Riaz, son Ahmed Ali Riaz and son-in-law Zain Malik

27. Former COAS Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa's son Saad Siddique Bajwa

28. Former Balochistan CM Sardar Aslam Raisani

29. MNA Amer Ali Magsi

30. MPA Sheikh M Mugheri 

31. Former MPA Sardar Khan Chandio

32. Former minister Marvi Memon

33. Lt Gen (retd) Muhammad Afzal Muzaffar

34. IG police AJK Tajik Sohail Aziz 

35. ARY CEO Salman Iqbal

36. Late Lt Gen (retd) Alam Jan Mahsud and his wife

37. Lt Gen (retd) Shafaat Ullah Shah

38. Maj Gen (retd) Syed Ehtasham Zamir

39. Lt Gen (retd) Muhammad Akram

40. Maj Gen (retd) Ghazanfar Ali Khan

41. Brig (retd) Nadir Mir

42. Maj Gen (retd) Syed Najamul Hassan Shah

43. Maj (retd) Maj Azizul Aman Zuberi

44. Maj Gen (retd) Ausaf Ali

45. Maj Gen (retd) Raja Arif Nazir

46. Air Vice Marshal (retd) Khalid Masood Rajput

However, some politicians have clarified that they own properties in the Gulf country and these were declared in the tax returns.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat said that he had declared his asset to the relevant authorities in Pakistan.

“I own an apartment in Dubai and the same has been declared with all the regulatory authorities of Pakistan including FBR, the Election Commission of Pakistan etc for the past six years. It can be confirmed both with the FBR as well as ECP,” Marwat stated on ‘X’.

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said that the property bought in his wife’s name was “fully declared and listed in tax returns”.

"It was also declared in returns submitted to the Election Commission as Caretaker CM of Punjab. The property was sold a year ago, and a new property was purchased recently with the proceeds," he clarified in a post on X.

In a response, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s spokesperson Zulfikar Ali Bader said that the former foreign minister and Aseefa Bhutto Zardari had already declared all their domestic and foreign property with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).

“There is nothing new or illegal in this story. Apparently, this is neither news nor a scandal as the information is already in the public domain,” Bader added.