No PTI leader except Marwat named in Dubai property leaks

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.

Pakistanis who are listed in the property leaks are President Asif Ali Zardari’s three children, Hussain Nawaz Sharif, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s wife, Sharjeel Memon and family members, Senator Faisal Vawda, Farah Gogi, Sher Afzal Marwat, four MNAs and six MPAs from the Sindh and Balochistan assemblies.

The list also included late military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf, former prime minister Shaukat Aziz and more than a dozen retired generals as well as a police chief, an ambassador and a scientist.

However, no Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader was named in the leaks except outspoken stalwart Sher Afzal Khan Marwat.

Reacting to the development, the PTI lawmaker admitted that he owns a property in Dubai.

"I own an apartment in Dubai which property has been declared with FBR, the election Commission, and all the regulatory authorities of Pakistan for about past five years," he said in a post on the microblogging site X.