PTI's Sher Afzal Marwat admits he owns a property in Dubai

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat, whose name appeared on a list of 17,000 Pakistanis owning 23,000 properties in Dubai, admitted that he owns a property in the Gulf country.

He is the only PTI leader named in the Dubai Leaks, unveiled Tuesday evening.

However, the PTI lawmaker clarified that he has 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’.

A day earlier, 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.