THIS is apropos the article ‘One government, two directions’ (June 13). The author said that ‘he was unable to find the clear source’ of the figure ($10bn) stated by the prime minister in his recent address regarding money laundering.

Actually, these figures were quoted in the US State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy report released in March 2017. The report refers to these figures to trade-based money laundering in Pakistan, the process by which criminals use a legitimate trade to disguise their criminal proceeds from their unscrupulous sources.

Dawn also published this figure in its online publication of March 6, 2017, titled ‘Pakistan loses $10bn a year to money laundering’.

Agha Shahriyar Khan
Karachi

Published in Dawn, June 20th, 2019