Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has assured that his Government will investigate all its citizens mentioned in the Pandora Papers, and that if any wrongdoing is established, appropriate action will be taken.

In a tweet, Khan also called on the international community to treat this grave injustice as similar to the climate change crisis.

He welcomed the Pandora Papers exposing the ill-gotten wealth of elites, accumulated through tax evasion and corruption and laundered out to financial “havens”.

Prominent members of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Government, donors to his party, and family members of the country’s powerful military generals have moved millions of dollars of wealth through offshore companies, a new investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) alleges.

Two members of Khan’s cabinet – Water Resources Minister Moonis Elahi and Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin – were prominent in the leaks, alongside more than 700 other Pakistani citizens, including family members of several high-ranking military officials, donors to Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and opposition political leaders’ families.

The ICIJ’s investigation is based on more than 11.9 million confidential files leaked from 14 offshore financial services firms.

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