Pakistan seeks help from Germany to return of $200 billion: Shahzad Akbar.

Islamabad -- Pakistan has sought help from Germany to return of $200 billion of Pakistanis that were currently present in Switzerland Bank accounts.

German had purchased the all the detail of banks accounts that leaked from Switzerland in 2010. Number of countries including India had got information from Germany in this regard.

On the other hand federal government has formally appealed to UK for the early return of former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar has stated this while addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Sunday. Shahzad Akbar said that a bilateral treaty is again being ratified with the Swiss authorities which will enable the country to get the details of the bank accounts opened by Pakistani nationals. He said that Pakistan has already signed a treaty with Britain which will help speed up the investigations into different high profile asset cases.

He said he is also visiting Britain next week where he will meet with his conterpart of national crime agency and also hold discussions on the pending requests for extradition including that of former Finance Minister Ishaq Dar.Responding a question, he stated that government has finalized a broad based mutual legal assistance law to obtain evidence from foreign jurisdictions about financial crimes and mega corruption cases involving Pakistanis.

He said the law will soon be placed before the cabinet and it will be brought first through an ordinance and then presented before...