Well Done FBR for exposing the money laundering mafia. Congratulations I&I Directorate in Karachi.
In his tweet,
Zahid F. Ibrahim is publicly blaming the FBR, yet he fails to disclose a critical fact: the persons named in FIR No. 02/26, registered by the FBR’s Intelligence & Investigation Directorate in Karachi namely Mrs. Irum Afaq, Tariq Amin, Mohammad Abbas, Hassan Tharani, and Feroze Alam were all previously employees of M/S Barrot Hodgson (Pvt) Ltd.
This company, a Rs. 60 billion pharmaceutical factory at SITE Karachi, was exclusively owned by Dr. Salim Habib, and its holding company based in Guernsey. These individuals are alleged to have committed a grave criminal breach of trust. Through fraud and forgery, they are accused of fabricating a false gift for company’s employee Mrs. Irum Afaq was prepared and use as instrument to transfer Dr Salim’s shares in BHP Pvt Ltd into her name at face value of Rs 100/- per share, and after transfer valued billions of rupees thus, transforming themselves into billionaires overnight.
Dr. Salim Habib, a philanthropist in the truest sense, established The Salim Habib Education Foundation with one sacred objective: to provide free, quality education to the children of Pakistan. Under this Foundation, he donated assets worth over Rs. 60 billion to establish Dr. Salim Habib University in Karachi and the Dr. Salim Habib Educational Complex at TT Singh, Punjab.
Today, Mrs. Irum Afaq and Tariq Amin who never donated a single rupee have unlawfully seized management control of this Foundation. They now command an endowment built entirely from Dr. Salim Habib’s life earnings and sacrifice.
We ask the authorities and the people of Pakistan:
How can we allow a noble cause to be hijacked by persons of dubious conduct?
Why are they resisting independent, institutional oversight of charity funds that were never theirs to control?
Why is a public charity spending hundreds of millions of rupees in legal fees money meant for poor students just to retain management control?
This was never the donor’s intent. Dr. Salim Habib and his family wished for this Foundation to be supervised by a credible, independent institution ideally one working under the defence forces to ensure transparency and permanence. That wish is being denied.
Even more alarming, there are reports that the present directors intend to sell the Rs. 60 billion pharma factory for a mere Rs. 35 billion a devastating loss to the endowment and transfer the proceeds abroad. Mrs. Irum Afaq, who has acquired U.S. nationality, has allegedly not declared her foreign assets to the FBR, including a shopping centre and residential property in the USA. Evidence of this is available on request.
How can such persons be termed as Executives or Business persons - just because they can share looted unlawful gains with their fixers. The named persons did not funded their own money nor gave any donation but being defended viciously.
As the exclusive donor, Dr. Salim Habib and his family must be in deep pain watching their life’s endowment meant to educate thousands of underprivileged Pakistani children being corrupted and used for money laundering. FBR has taken bold and brave action as per law.
It is for the beneficiaries ie Public
At Large to protect the donation of billions of rupees by noble
man (Dr Salim Habib) and to restore the Foundation to its original, sacred purpose: free education for the poor.
To the students of Pakistan: This Foundation was built for you. It is your right to demand that it remains clean, transparent, and dedicated to your future.
To FBR - Your efforts are commendable. The students will support you and urge you to act swiftly and decisively. A nation’s trust in charity, and a generation’s access to education, hangs in the balance.
Don’t be afraid of paid agents of thugs whose job is to give shelter to criminals by attempts to blackmail state’s institutions. Now let justice be completed.
Well Done FBR for exposing the money laundering mafia. Congratulations I&I Directorate in Karachi.
In his tweet,
Zahid F. Ibrahim is publicly blaming the FBR, yet he fails to disclose a critical fact: the persons named in FIR No. 02/26, registered by the FBR’s Intelligence & Investigation Directorate in Karachi namely Mrs. Irum Afaq, Tariq Amin, Mohammad Abbas, Hassan Tharani, and Feroze Alam were all previously employees of M/S Barrot Hodgson (Pvt) Ltd.
This company, a Rs. 60 billion pharmaceutical factory at SITE Karachi, was exclusively owned by Dr. Salim Habib, and its holding company based in Guernsey. These individuals are alleged to have committed a grave criminal breach of trust. Through fraud and forgery, they are accused of fabricating a false gift for company’s employee Mrs. Irum Afaq was prepared and use as instrument to transfer Dr Salim’s shares in BHP Pvt Ltd into her name at face value of Rs 100/- per share, and after transfer valued billions of rupees thus, transforming themselves into billionaires overnight.
Dr. Salim Habib, a philanthropist in the truest sense, established The Salim Habib Education Foundation with one sacred objective: to provide free, quality education to the children of Pakistan. Under this Foundation, he donated assets worth over Rs. 60 billion to establish Dr. Salim Habib University in Karachi and the Dr. Salim Habib Educational Complex at TT Singh, Punjab.
Today, Mrs. Irum Afaq and Tariq Amin who never donated a single rupee have unlawfully seized management control of this Foundation. They now command an endowment built entirely from Dr. Salim Habib’s life earnings and sacrifice.
We ask the authorities and the people of Pakistan:
How can we allow a noble cause to be hijacked by persons of dubious conduct?
Why are they resisting independent, institutional oversight of charity funds that were never theirs to control?
Why is a public charity spending hundreds of millions of rupees in legal fees money meant for poor students just to retain management control?
This was never the donor’s intent. Dr. Salim Habib and his family wished for this Foundation to be supervised by a credible, independent institution ideally one working under the defence forces to ensure transparency and permanence. That wish is being denied.
Even more alarming, there are reports that the present directors intend to sell the Rs. 60 billion pharma factory for a mere Rs. 35 billion a devastating loss to the endowment and transfer the proceeds abroad. Mrs. Irum Afaq, who has acquired U.S. nationality, has allegedly not declared her foreign assets to the FBR, including a shopping centre and residential property in the USA. Evidence of this is available on request.
How can such persons be termed as Executives or Business persons - just because they can share looted unlawful gains with their fixers. The named persons did not funded their own money nor gave any donation but being defended viciously.
As the exclusive donor, Dr. Salim Habib and his family must be in deep pain watching their life’s endowment meant to educate thousands of underprivileged Pakistani children being corrupted and used for money laundering. FBR has taken bold and brave action as per law.
It is for the beneficiaries ie Public
At Large to protect the donation of billions of rupees by noble
man (Dr Salim Habib) and to restore the Foundation to its original, sacred purpose: free education for the poor.
To the students of Pakistan: This Foundation was built for you. It is your right to demand that it remains clean, transparent, and dedicated to your future.
To FBR - Your efforts are commendable. The students will support you and urge you to act swiftly and decisively. A nation’s trust in charity, and a generation’s access to education, hangs in the balance.
Don’t be afraid of paid agents of thugs whose job is to give shelter to criminals by attempts to blackmail state’s institutions. Now let justice be completed.