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Karachi Population Has Been Halved in Shaukat Aziz Ishaq Dar under

Census Results: Farooq Sattar Named as Offshore Treatment in
UK Hospital
Company Holder
of MQM-Pakistan. Karachi: The
“There are no groups International
in the party,” he said. Consortium
“Our enemies are of Investiga-
obsessed with see- tive Journal-
ing how many people ists (ICIJ),
have left our party. the group that
However, they should had unrav-
come and see how eled the Pan-
many people actually ama Papers
support us,” he said. a year ago,
“Wickets are lost in a has now re-
match with 11 play- leased Paradise Papers revealing the Lahore: Finance Minister Ishaq
ers. Our team com- often-murky financial wheelings and Dar, who has been admitted to a
prises more than 11 dealings of some of the world’s most London hospital, is likely to undergo
people. The whole powerful political players, including a cardiac procedure that may force
nation supports us,” Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and US him to extend his stay in the United
Hassan said, adding Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Kingdom, it emerged on Friday.
that people who were A trove of 13.4 million records An accountability court hear-
trying to destabi- exposes ties between Russia and US ing a corruption case against Mr
lize the party should President Donald Trump’s billion- Dar had on Thursday rejected his
know that their ef- aire commerce secretary, the secret application seeking exemption from
forts would be unsuc- dealings of the chief fundraiser for personal appearance.
“As a result of the wrong results, our representation has been halved. We reject this rigged census. cessful. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Media reports suggested that
Even the persons with disabilities have not been counted in the census. We demand that the census “You should also focus Trudeau and the offshore interests of Mr Dar was admitted to a West Lon-
process be conducted again,” Dr Farooq Sattar demanded on Pakistan People’s the Queen of England and more than don hospital on Wednesday, where
Party, the Pakistan 120 politicians around the world. he underwent angiography the next
Karachi: Muttahida Qa- omitting of headcount,” given political freedom,” Tehreek-e-Insaf and the The Paradise Papers have day.
umi Movement-Pakistan he said. he said. Pakistan Muslim League- named Shaukat Aziz in its list of He is likely to undergo angio-
chief Farooq Sattar said “As a result of the wrong He also claimed that the Nawaz and how their offshore company holders. Aziz had plasty.
on Sunday that the popu- results, our representation current MQM-Pakistan leaders are deserting served as the prime minister of Paki- Quoting hospital sources, the
lation of Karachi had been has been halved. We reject would turn into the MQM them,” he said. stan from 2004 to 2007, soon after report said that Mr Dar had been to
halved in the census re- this rigged census. Even of 1986. Faisal Sabzwari also spoke completing a five-year stint as the the clinic thrice for detailed check-
sults. the persons with disabili- “MQM is the only party against the provisional re- country’s finance minister. ups in the last one week after arriv-
Addressing a party rally ties have not been counted which understands the sults of the census. It reads: In 1999, the year he ing in London from Pakistan.
at Liaquatabad Flyover on in the census. We demand problems of the people. “The population of Kara- [Aziz] was appointed finance minis- It claimed that doctors advised
Sunday, he said that wa- that the census process be MQM is the only party chi has not been counted ter, Aziz created the Antarctic Trust, the finance minister to extend his
ter and other basic facili- conducted again,” he said. which can solve their correctly. Karachi is being which was “constituted [in the Unit- stay in the UK and get treatment on
ties would also be halved “MQM is a force to reckon problems,” he said. harmed and everyone is ed States] for the benefit of the Set- a priority basis.
for the city. “Almost half with. We want to be treat- Opposition Leader in sleeping. The enemies of tlor’s family,” which includes his wife, His son Ali Dar and other fam-
of Karachi’s population ed justly. If justice is not Sindh Assembly Khawaja MQM have become the three children and a granddaughter. ily members are also in London and
has not been counted in done, then we will expand Izharul Hassan dismissed enemies of Karachi. The The trust does not appear in the fi- are looking after him.
the census process. This our protest to every street. the idea that there was PPP is not at all concerned nancial disclosure statements Aziz On Thursday, his lawyers told
is not headcount, rather We demand that MQM be rift between members with Karachi,” he said. submitted from 2003 to 2006, while the accountability court that Mr Dar
was in London for treatment of a
he was finance minister and prime
Smog Thickens over Punjab, Traffic Disrupted minister. heart problem and would undergo
medical check-up within 24 hours.
“Appleby’s Bermuda office was
the trust’s protector, acting as an The court rejected his plea,
Lahore: Large swathes of Punjab independent overseer. In a 2012 in- maintained his bailable arrest war-
have been blanketed in thick smog for ternal memo, the law firm’s compli- rants, and adjourned the hearing
the past three days. The blinding com- ance officer noted that Aziz had been till Nov 8.
bination of smoke and fog is causing accused by the opposition of false
traffic problems and respiratory ill- declaration of assets, corruption and
misappropriation of funds. Three Shahbaz Returns
nesses among people, besides lead-
ing to power outages in the country’s years later, in a database of high- after Week-Long
most populous province. risk clients, Appleby also noted that
The situation is particularly a Pakistani court had issued three Stay in London
alarming in south and central dis- arrest warrants against Aziz in rela-
tricts of Punjab. Smog thickened to tion to the killing of a local leader. In Lahore: Chief
the critical level over Punjab on Sat- September 2015, Antarctic Trust was Minister Punjab
urday, disrupting road and air traf- closed and the related file removed Shahbaz Sharif
fic across the province and creating from one of Appleby’s internal da- has returned to
health problems for the public. tabases. Aziz has dismissed both the Lahore after a
The Motorway and National accusations of graft and any associa- week-long visit
Highways Authority reported reduc- tion with the murder,” read the docu- to London.
tion of visibility on the roads from The Motorway and National Highways Authority reported reduction of visibility on the ment available on the ICIJ website. During his
zero to 50 meters last night, making roads from zero to 50 meters, making travel risky The other prominent political stay in London,
travel risky. figure from Pakistan named in the Shahbaz called
Its spokesman Imran Shah re- so far detected around 50,000 fire in- including Pakistan, mostly in April- Paradise Papers is former National on his ailing sister-in-law Kulsoom
ported in the evening the closure of cidents there from middle of October June and September-November,” he Insurance Corporation Limited Nawaz and met various overseas
the motorway from Pindi Bhattian to November 3. claimed, adding that this time the im- (NICL) chairperson Ayaz Khan Ni- PML-N supporters.
to Faisalabad and from Faisalabad to Mideast, not India, is to be pact of these dust clouds in Pakistan is azi, DawnNews reported. In an important development
Gojra at 8:30 because of poor visibil- blamed:: Some experts, however, say severe due to the continued dry spell. The most detailed revelations during his London stay, Shahbaz
ity. The vehicles running on the mo- the main source of smog in Pakistan “After reaching Pakistan, these emerge in decades of corporate re- was chosen as a prime ministerial
torway were guided out. He said thick is trans-boundary pollution which is dust clouds – coupled with dust cords from the white-shoe offshore candidate after the 2018 elections
fog was covering the national highway actually originating from the Middle storms originating from Thar Desert law firm Appleby and corporate ser- if party president Nawaz Sharif re-
form Lahore to Dera Ismail Khan. East. Although smog hits Pakistan – form smog and aggravate the situa- vices provider Estera, two businesses mains ineligible to run for office.
Flight operations too were dis- twice a year, this time the issue is tion,” Shuja said. that operated together under the The decision “coincided” with a
rupted during the early hours of Sat- ballooning into a crisis due to a pro- Around 122 dust storms had Appleby name until Estera became full-page result of a “national opin-
urday. Airports all over the province longed dry spell in the country. been reported last year in Iraq alone, independent in 2016. ion survey” published in an Urdu
were expected to be closed down at “Every year the Middle Eastern blanketing the sky for 283 days, he The leaked documents, dubbed daily in which 60 per cent of respon-
night because of the expected dense countries, especially Iraq, Syria, and added. the Paradise Papers, show how deep- dents declared Shahbaz Sharif as the
fog or smog. Many flights could land Iran, are hit by heavy sand and dust The trans-boundary effect of the ly the offshore financial system is en- best choice for the prime ministerial
at Lahore, Multan and other airports storms, which form dust clouds,” Asif sand and dust storms had grabbed the tangled with the overlapping worlds job. According to the survey, con-
on Saturday morning owing to unfa- Shuja, a former director general of world attention, he said, adding that of political players, private wealth ducted by a little known US institute
vorable aviation conditions, resulting the Environmental Protection Agen- while considering the seriousness and corporate giants, including Global Strategic Partner in Septem-
in problems to the passengers. cy (EPA), told The Express Tribune of the issue, a regional meeting was Apple, Nike, Uber and other global ber, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chair-
India was still the main problem while explaining the phenomenon. convened in Turkey last month where companies that avoid taxes through man Imran Khan was the choice of
as the Space and Upper Atmosphere “These dust clouds travel thou- participants called for regional efforts increasingly imaginative bookkeep- 47pc of the total 4,540 respondents
Research Commission (Supraco) had sands of kilometers to other countries, to address the menace. ing manoeuvres. from across the country.
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