ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – The Finance Ministry, while turning down Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s demand for disclosure of the assets and income sources of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, said on Sunday the call was just mischief mongering and height of ignorance.
In his letter to PTI chief Imran Khan, Dar had categorically stated that the details of all his sources of income and assets had been regularly reported in his tax returns he had filed with the Federal Board of Revenue.
The ministry’s spokesperson said, “Details of his assets are also annually filed with Election Commission of Pakistan, which makes the same public through gazette notification and anybody can access this information and details.”
About Imran Khan’s claim that Dar had sent money to his sons in Dubai, the spokesperson clarified that the minister had in fact received money from his sons through proper banking channels. “The money was sent in settlement of loans given by Dar to his sons, out of his professional earnings abroad during the period 2002 to 2008.”
The finance minister was then working as financial adviser. “It is pity that instead of realising the mistake after receiving aforesaid letter, the PTI spokesperson continued disseminating baseless stand in order to mislead the people at large.”
He said that just the other day the country’s top economists endorsed the finance minister’s repeated calls for a ‘charter of economy’ but it appears that PTI leadership was more interested in advocating a ‘charter of acrimony’, something which we should all avoid at this critical juncture of our history in the national interest, he concluded.
