JIT completes 60-day probe, submits report on 10th

ISLAMABAD: The Joint Investigation Team (JIT), formed by the apex court to probe into the offshore properties of the Sharif family, has completed its 60-day duration on Friday but it has three more additional days given by the Supreme Court bench to submit its final report.

According to the record of the probe body, it interrogated and recorded statements of mainly over a dozen persons during the 60-day period including  Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, cousin of the prime minister Tariq Shafi, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, former Interior Minister A Rahman Malik, head of Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Zafar Hijazi, Javed Kayani, a prime character in Hudaibiya Paper Mills case; Basharat Shahzad, head of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Khyber-Pakhtoonkhawa; Javaid Ali Shah, a former FIA official; and children of the prime minister--Maryam Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz.

The sources said the JIT held a total of 58 meetings and its members took only one day leave on first day of Eid-ul-Fitr otherwise all of them continued to work even on weekly holidays." The sources said the JIT in its meeting held on Friday again reviewed all the documents submitted by the witnesses and their recorded statements and started making notes that would be made part of the final report to be presented to the Supreme Court bench on
July 10.