ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister's Special Assistant Asif Kirmani on Monday accused the Panama Joint Investigation Team (JIT) of taking a U-Turn from its mandate of probing Sharif Family's London properties.
He was talking to media persons outside Federal Judicial Academy (FJA) where he accompanied PM's son Hassan Nawaz on his third appearance before the six-member probe body.
He said that the JIT has hired services of a London-based law firm on a heavy price. The same documents could have been acquired from the Supreme Court, he maintained.
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"This is the people's money. The public wants to know who the JIT obliged by getting the legal firm on board," he said.
The JIT report would remain inconclusive unless the statement of Qatari prince is incorporated in it, Kirmani added. Why the JIT is avoiding going to Qatar, it is not on North Pole, he asked. ‘If you are investigating London flats then you should go to Qatar.’
He claimed that after the JIT did not find anything on the London’s Park Lane flats, investigators are now probing the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, which has been quashed by the Lahore High Court.
Meanwhile, former prime minister of Qatar Prince Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabar Al-Thani has written another letter to the JIT to provide him the schedule for its visit to Doha.
It is the third letter that the Qatari prince has written to the JIT on the same subject where he has informed the team that he would welcome it in his office and verify all the contents and facts that he wrote in his letter that was produced in the Supreme Court of Pakistan with regard to his family’s business association with the Sharif family of Pakistan.
The JIT is bound to submit its final report on July 10 as the apex court has told the body that no extension shall be given.
Finance Minster Ishaq Dar is scheduled to appear before the JIT today at 03:00 pm. PM’s elder son Hussain Nawaz and daughter Maryam Nawaz would appear on July 04 and 05 respectively.
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