Alleged ‘Netflix’ documentary on corruption in Pakistan stirs up Imran-Nawaz politics

In social media circles in Pakistan, a trailer that seems because the prologue of a documentary on political corruption has been making the rounds. The clip has been shared by a number of individuals together with many influential leaders within the nation. It was additionally shared by Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief and former Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting.

Sharing the clip, the previous minister wrote on Twitter, “Coming soon.”

Coming Soon pic.twitter.com/vq1nwRfQvv

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) October 17, 2022

Following this, a pattern on Twitter started that Netflix was releasing a documentary on corruption in Pakistan. Pakistanis had been excited to share how this might be a giant publicity of how the deep state functioned in Pakistan in the course of the tenure of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Explosive movie about mega corruption scandals in Pakistan “Behind Closed Doors” A Netflix collection is coming quickly.pic.twitter.com/w4pGYeIaV1

— Ans Hafeez (@PakForeverIA) October 17, 2022

#Netflix goes to launch an explosive 🧨 movie “Behind Close Doors” about mega corruption scandals in #Pakistan    . Some “big names” are featured. 👀
I gained’t be stunned in the event that they ban Netflix in Pakistan for airing it. (Copied) pic.twitter.com/y7YBqk88XW

— AFTAB KhAn 💫 (@itsaftabb) October 18, 2022

PTI supporters and several other journalists are peddling the trailer as an assault on the Nawaz Sharif authorities and the Shahbaz Sharif authorities for the widespread corruption throughout their reign. Several others are seeing it as a documentary sponsored by Imran Khan-led PTI. A Pakistani Twitter consumer wrote under the tweet by Fawad Hussain, “Paid documentary sponsored by @PTIofficial Can this documentary be used as proof against Shahbaz Sharif in courts??”

Paid documentary sponsored by @PTIofficial
Can this documentary be used as proof in opposition to Shahbaz Sharif in courts??

— Abdul Sami (@sami_ravian) October 17, 2022
The documentary ‘Behind Closed Doors’

The uproar on social media in Pakistan is over a documentary that’s titled ‘Behind Closed Doors.’ As the teaser of the movie has garnered consideration and unfold the notion that it’s a documentary on corruption in Pakistan and is to be aired on Netflix, there are not any indicators that the OTT platform goes to host the movie.

The clip was first launched on the YouTube channel of Independent POV, the manufacturing home which has backed the documentary. As per its web site, Independent POV is “an independent production company, producing documentaries that explore the themes of secrecy and abuse of power. The films aim to challenge dogma and encourage thinking.”

About the documentary, a web page on the official web site of Independent POV mentions: “Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) are people who hold a public function and as a result present higher risks of being involved in bribery or corruption. Offshore leaks have revealed repeatedly that PEPs use British finance and British offshore jurisdictions to launder their wealth, hide their wealth and re-invest it into the global financial system. London is the place where they buy property, where they take legal action against their critics and where they live when they fall from grace.”

A screengrab of the web site.

On the web site, it’s talked about that the movie has contributions from Imran Khan, Arshad Sharif, John-Allan Namu, Tom Stocks, Rachel Davies Teka, Fawad Chaudry, Emin Huseynov, Shazad Akbar, Irfan Hashmi. Among the contributors in former Pak PM Imran Khan, former minister Fawad Chaudhry, and Arshad Sharif. As per stories, Arshad Sharif is a journalist having shut ties with the PTI.

Notably, even the web site doesn’t point out the distributor of the movie. Additionally, hours after the teaser went viral, Pakistani TV host Shiffa Yousafzai mentioned Netflix has not but formally confirmed that the documentary could be launched on the OTT.

Update: So far there isn’t a official affirmation of the information that this documentary might be on the Netflix. https://t.co/7iJiAAvHxu

— Shiffa Z. Yousafzai (@Shiffa_ZY) October 17, 2022

Though this trailer has amused Pakistanis, there are not any indicators that it is going to be an official Netflix launch. Pakistan is already going through a monetary and political disaster within the nation. Months earlier, the politics within the nation noticed a churning when Imran Khan misplaced the arrogance movement and Shehbaz Sharif was chosen because the Prime Minister of the nation.

In April 2018, Pakistan’s Supreme Court charged former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam, and son-in-law Captain Mohammad Safdar on corruption fees associated to possession of properties in London. Following a Supreme Court investigation into the Panama Papers, three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted from Parliament in July 2017.