Well-deserved Pulitzer
Well-deserved Pulitzer
EDITORIAL PUBLISHED ABOUT 13 HOURS AGO
THE Panama Papers leak by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) was arguably the biggest journalistic scoop ever, and possibly the first time that journalists working together managed to create a splash whose impact was felt worldwide. One is hard-pressed to think of any other story produced by any journalist that has had even a remotely comparable global impact. The leak was not a minor one. It involved 11.5m documents from one of the world’s most opaque corners — an offshore haven used by criminals, billionaires and politicians to hold, launder and transact in a murky sphere beyond the reach of any state regulatory authority. All manner of ill-gotten gains and dirty money swirls around in this world, and the trail of ownership that came out of the Panamanian firm whose documents were leaked went from the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, to the prime minister of Iceland and the son of Egypt’s former strongman Hosni Mubarak, amongst many others. Most significantly for Pakistan, there appeared to be a direct link to the daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, as well as assorted billionaires and the family of the man referred to as the father of the country’s nuclear programme.
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