The Supreme Court of Pakistan will resume hearing of the petitions seeking a probe into the PanamaLeaks and disqualification of Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
On Monday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s children Maryam, Hassan and Hussain Nawaz had replaced their lawyer Salman Ahmad Butt with Akram Sheikh. PTI had also submitted what it referred to as ‘evidence’ of money laundering against PM Nawaz Sharif, at the Supreme Court.
Today is also the last day that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his children have to submit all documentary evidence regarding the Panama Leaks case. Nawaz Sharif’s children Maryam, Hassan and Hussain Nawaz had earlier claimed during the initial proceedings that all three of them were not dependent on their father.
On the last hearing, the court had directed the petitioners and respondents to file documents related to properties and off-shore companies revealed in the Panama Papers Leaks by November 15.
The court had ruled that the respondents, including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his sons Hassan and Hussain Nawaz and his son-in-law and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, had to satisfy it as to when the properties and entities were acquired, how money was transferred from Pakistan and who paid and from which bank account it was spent.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday filed 686 pages of documents as evidence but relied on the paper book of journalist Asad Kharral on the PanamaLeaks. Kharral had also filed a petition against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the PanamaLeaks but the bench dismissed it on November 2.
The documents submitted to the court on Monday by the PTI contain the details of bank accounts and billions of rupees loan write-offs. The evidence mentioned that from 1988 to 1991, the Sharif family transferred Rs56,896 million through ‘hundi’.
The court was informed that the Sharif family through money laundering shifted Rs 145 million abroad while during the period paid Rs 887 as income tax. It was submitted that the said money was not declared in the tax return.
