Pakistan government says no action against ministers named in Pandora Papers until ‘proven’ guilty 

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said members of the federal cabinet whose names had appeared in the Pandora Papers financial documents dump would not be removed from their positions unless they were “proven” guilty.
The Pandora Papers, a massive leak of financial documents allegedly tying world leaders, including Pakistanis, to secret stores of wealth, were published last Sunday. Among those named in the papers are more than 700 Pakistanis, including several members of Khan’s cabinet, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a Washington-based network of reporters and media organizations that published the investigation.
The documents do not implicate Khan himself but name Water Resources Minister Moonis Elahi and Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, among others in the prime minister’s inner circle.
“Action will be taken once they [cabinet members] are proven guilty,” Hussain said at a post-cabinet press conference on Tuesday.
On Monday the information minister said PM Khan had set up a high-level cell to investigate Pakistanis named in the Pandora Papers.
The investigation cell would categorize the named individuals into four groups, according to the information minister: those who had declared offshore companies in Pakistan; those who had not declared companies here and thus committed tax evasion; those who used offshore companies for money laundering; and individuals who had not revealed their offshore companies as part of assets owned by them while declaring their wealth.