List of 100 Pakistanis owning properties in Dubai presented in NA body

ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday formally tabled before the Parliamentary Committee of National Assembly a list of 100 Pakistanis, who owns properties in Dubai but the concerned authorities were still clueless how to proceed against these individuals.
PTI leader Asad Umar, who was main mover for probing property owners in Dubai in last one and half year period on Thursday resulted into surfacing of list before the official proceedings of the Sub-Committee of NA Standing Committee on Finance led by Chairperson Dr Shezra Mansab Ali here at the Parliament House.
Later on, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance held its meeting under Chairmanship of Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh in which the sub-committee was advised to submit its report in writing so that the main committee could take decision whether they should send this investigation report to NAB for filing of reference because the anti corruption and ill gotten assets abroad fell into jurisdiction of the NAB.
According to the submitted list of 100 individuals owning properties at Dubai, Afraz Alam Khan owns properties at Al Samar and Golf Towers, Ayesha Adeel owns the Residences BD-B-2 and Yansoon Quarters, Abdullah Hashwani owns Reehan Quarter BD-OTA2, Anisa Farooqi owns the Residences II-BDT3, Ashfaque Alam owns Al-Samar GRB-1, Al Samar 3-305, Mosela GR-Mosela, Ashfaque Kumar Chawla owns Fairways-GR-Fairways and Marina Pormennade, Khursheed Ahmed Sheikh owns Marina Quays and Marina Quays West-32-3204, Mehmood owns Phase-1 Yaas Phase-1 18-1803, Mir Alam Khan ows three properties, Naveed Ahmed Khan owns 5 properties, Raza Kamal Minhas owns four properties, Saira K Iqbal owns two properties, Shahzaib Akhtar owns three properties, Shaista Farhan owns one property, Syed Zaheer Abass owns two properties, Mehboob Hussain owns two properties, Naddem Aziz Mian owns two properties, SM Kashif Qaseem owns two properties, Najeeb Raheem owns two properties, Najeebur Rehman owns two properties, Naveed Ather Hussain owns two properties, Santosh Kumar Chawla, 1 Properties, Shahid Shafiq owns one property, Shaikh Aftab Aijaz owns two properties, Shazdeh Vakil owns ine properties, Shaikh Muhammad Nadeem owns two properties, Abdul Qadir owns two properties, Majid Hassan owns one property, Muhammad Zubair Waqar owns two properties, Zia Hameed owns one properties, Khurrum Khalil owns one property, Khalil Ahmed owns one property, Faraz Haroon owns two properties, Asif Nisar 2 properties, Bakhtiar Khan 4 properties, Anwar Yahya 4 properties, Fawad Usman 3 properties, Jamil Yahya 2 properties, Mujeeb Malik 3 properties, Masood Ahmed Shaikh 2 properties, Mst. Maria Maryam one property, Zakim Khan and Hamid Hasan own one property each, Usman Khan 1 property, Syed Muhammad Shibli 1 property, Mr. Shuaib Anwar Malik 1 property, Mr. Saqib Fareed one property, Mst. Salma Hamid 1 property, Mst. Safina Syma Khar 1 property, Sadaqat Said 2 properties, Riffat Shaheen Qazi 1 property, Nisar Kiyani 2 properties, Mst. Naureen Sami Khan 1 property, Muhammad Munir Fazla 1 property, Malik Iftikhar Khan 1 property, Kamran Masud 1 property, Haroon Akbar 1 property, Hamid Farooq 1 property, Begum Jahanara Aminuddin, 1 property, Mr. Basil Faruki 2 properties, Muhammad Ali 2 properties, Syed Ali Shabbar Jafferi 2 properties, Javed Umer, 2 Properties, Mr. Shaikh Furrukh Saleem, 1 Property, Mst. Sadia Khan 1 property, Junaid Khalil Nani Talwala owns one property, Agha Shahid Majeed Khan one property, Abdullah one property, Asadullah Agha one property, Dure Seema one property, Agha Arsalan Khan one property, Adeel Anwar 4 properties, Ayesha Umair Siddiqui one property, Ajaz Ahmed Malik one property, Mohammad Shoeb 2 properties, Farah Razak one property, Farhan Iqbal Saya one property, Imran Ahmed Farid one property, Farkhanda Nasreen Khan one property, Mst Mariam Shahbir one property, Mst Madiha Shahbir one property, Shahzad Waseem one property, Fahad Sultan Ahmed 2 properties, Kashif Nazeer 2 properties, Ammara Khan 2 properties, Adil Bashir one property, Adnan Ahmed Khan one property, Aleema Khanum one property, Khalid Imran one property, Mansoor Ul Haq 2 properties, Waqar Ahmed 10 properties, Arshad Khan, Ch Saleemullah, Junaid Sami Khan, Karim Aziz Malik, Momin Qamar and Farhan Hanif own one property each, Mohammad Safwan owns 2 properties, Mohammad Tariq owns one property and Sultan Ahmed Feroz owns 4 properties.
The sub-committee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance dwelt upon reasons for ascertaing facts for the failure of government functionaries in probing the purchase of properties worth $8 billion in Dubai the last four years by Pakistanis.
Earlier, the sub-committee was informed that neither FBR, State Bank nor FIA was empowered to demand the details of Pakistanis who have invested abroad, and only NAB was the focal agency to deal over anti-money laundering or corruption issues with other countries.
However, the FIA team led by Zaheer Ahmed, Director presented a list of 100 persons who have properties in Dubai, and informed that the list was part of an inquiry conducted by FIA Karachi. While, presenting the list the FIA director said that it was yet to determine if all the property owners were local Pakistanis or non-residents.
Meanwhile, Tariq Pasha, chairman FBR said that Pakistan has a double taxation treaty with UAE but they do not respond to any of the query floated by the FBR in several previous years.
As Mr Asad Umar inquired the reasons about the response by UAE over the query by JIT in Panama probe, which led to the implication of former prime minister. “Why is that they do not respond about the details of ordinary Pakistani but provided the answers about a sitting prime minister,” Mr Asad Umar asked the officials.
However, the officials of FIA said that the demand for information was floated by NAB and it was very specific, whereas the queries related to properties by Pakistanis is generalized and they avoid it – possibly to protect their investors.
The committee was also informed that there were several flaws in the anti-corruption laws that needed to be rectified by the government as the law for FIA in this regard was Foreign Assets Declaration Regulations 1972. He also said that the government has not signed several bilateral agreements cooperate in corruption probes with the UAE.