Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has given an ambitious deadline of two weeks to a task force for suggestions to recover unlawfully acquired foreign assets.
The task force on Monday held its first meeting where different government departments apprised the body about the current status of pending investigations of suspected money laundering and financial fraud cases, reported Express Tribune, citing officials who attended the meeting.
Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan has declared retrieval of the hidden offshore assets as his topmost priority and promised to bring back the wealth stashed in overseas banks. In a latest development, showing the urgency of PM’s motives, the task forces has been asked to give recommendations within two weeks “for steps to be taken for expedient return of unlawfully acquired assets from abroad”.
Recovery of wealth stashed abroad illegally by politicians has been one of the main election promises of Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaaf, which won the 25th July general elections in Pakistan.