By Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: One of the architects of the Assets Recovery Agreement (ARA) between the Broadsheet LLC and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said his role was only that of a “post office” between the two parties and nothing more. Tariq Fawad Malik, who currently lives in Dubai and runs businesses from there, is considered the main character of the Broadsheet deal among Gen Amjad, Farouk Adam Khan, Jerry James and Dr William Pepper. General Amjad told Sir Anthony Evans that it was Tariq Fawad Malik – known also as TFM – who came to him with Ghaznafar Ali Khan for the first time to pitch the idea of recovering the alleged stolen billion from abroad through the so-called assets recovery firm Trouvons LLC.
Shahid Afridi expresses solidarity with people of Kashmir ahead of Feb 5
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Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi in London, United Kingdom, August 5, 2019. Photo: Geo. tv/Murtaza Ali Shah
Shahid Afridi showed solidarity with the people of Kashmir ahead of Feb 2
Praised people of Kashmir for their valour and perseverance despite Indian atrocities
Afridi has been vocal about the Kashmir issue in the past too
Former Pakistani cricket captain Shahid Khan Afridi on Thursday took to his Twitter account and praised the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) for their bravery ahead of February 5 which is celebrated as the Kashmir Solidarity Day in Pakistan.
Plane seizure in Malaysia: PIA pays Rs1.124b to jet companyBy Murtaza Ali ShahLONDON: The Pakistan International Airlines informed a judge at the London High Court on Friday that it has paid around.
Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: A British-Pakistani lawyer is at the centre of the Broadsheet scandal that has exploded on Pakistani media scene after The News and Geo exclusively took off the lid from various key aspects of the case that has cost Pakistan over $65 million. This publication had revealed in May 2019 the name of Barrister Zafar Ali QC for the first time, stating that the British-Pakistani defence counsel had held meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan, Shahzad Akbar, Asad Umar and various other top officials to discuss the possibility of a new deal to trace the alleged stolen assets of Pakistan. The News had published contents of what’s now known as the “Moussavi document”, naming Dr Kersten Pucks, Zafar Ali QC and Shaid Iqbal, a solicitor of England & Wales, who had met Broadsheet CEO Kaveh Moussavi prior to Ali and Iqbal’s meeting with Imran Khan and his senior cabinet colleagues. Nearly two years later, they are in news after this publication released a “declar
Govt’s action, reaction in Broadsheet saga perplexing
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January 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: As daily doses of new and interesting details of Broadsheet saga continue to pour in, the government’s attempt at damage control comes across as perplexing.
On January 6, 2021 in an inter-ministerial meeting held in the foreign ministry and attended by officials of the Foreign Office, NAB, finance ministry, the attorney general’s office and the law ministry, it was decided to send a legal notice to the United Bank Limited, UK, for “unauthorized debit of account” to pay Broadsheet “without informing” the Pakistan High Commission in London.
On Sept 14, 2020, The News published an exclusive story by its London correspondent Murtaza Ali Shah disclosing that the Pakistan Government had issued instructions to the UBL London office to make a payment of around $27 million to Broadsheet after the company had moved the London high court and obtained freezing orders on monies kept in