In third letter, Qatari prince invites JIT again

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister of Qatar Prince Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabar Al-Thani has written another letter to the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) appointed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the PanamaLeaks case to provide him the schedule for its visit to Qatar’s capital 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.

Highly-placed sources close to Prince Hamad told The News from Doha on Sunday evening that the prince has declined to oblige the JIT to visit the Pakistan Embassy in Doha under the plea that the jurisdiction doesn’t apply on him for the subject. The sources said that the JIT has hinted the prince that it would visit Doha for his statement and gathering the relevant documents. The team asked for the meeting/recording of the statement in Pakistan’s Embassy. The prince has made it clear that he would establish each and every word of his letter through unimpeachable evidence that was produced in the Supreme Court. He has informed that all the documents required proving his contention would also be made available once the JIT comes to Doha. The third letter has been written to the team last week.

Prince Hamad has also made it clear that he would satisfactorily answer each and every question of the would-be visiting team since his letter that had been made record in the case before the apex court is based on facts that could be conveniently proved through authentic documents. The prince, who is from Al-Thani ruling royal family of Qatar, is among the world’s top category investors, and has maintained that he would welcome the JIT upon its visit to his country’s capital. The prince has expressed his pleasure on the intention of the team about visiting him in his country.