Former PM and money whitening
The finance minister quite rightly refused to disclose details about the possible whitening of money by the former prime minister and her two sons, under the Income Tax Ordinance of 1984, preventing the disclosure of such information about Taxpayers' whitening of undisclosed money. (The BNP insisted she whitened white money. Why would she want to do that? Does she also send her fresh laundry out for further laundering?)
This Ordinance is undoubtedly good protection for private taxpayers, but whether this should extend to someone who was elected to public office and served as the prime minister of the country is debateable. Her sons, who did not serve in the government, could enjoy this privacy. In fact, no persons elected to public office, or who are in government service and receive their salaries from taxpayer's funds, should benefit from this privacy clause.
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