ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The three-member implementation bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Panama Papers Case on Monday brushed aside the reservations of Hussain Nawaz regarding two members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT).
While hearing a petition filed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s elder son Hussain Nawaz challenging two of the JIT members in Panama Case, the head of the three-member bench Justice Ejaz Afzal said that no member of the JIT would be replaced.
The bench ordered the JIT to continue its investigation in Panama Papers Case while in his remarks, Justice Saeed Azmat questioned that will the prime minister himself select the team for his own investigation?
Earlier, Hussain Nawaz’s Counsel Khawaja Haris submitted his arguments in the Court.
Hussain Nawaz had filed an application in the Supreme Court in which he had voiced objection over two members of the JIT including Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan’s (SECP) Bilal Rasooland and State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) Amer Aziz for allegedly having affiliation with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and previously having been part of a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigation into the Hudabiya Paper Mills scam.
Earlier on Sunday, Hussain Nawaz appeared before the JIT at the Federal Judicial Academy in Islamabad and recorded his statement for two hours. The JIT asked Hussian Nawaz to again appear before it on May 30.
On May 5 this year, the three-member Special Bench of the Supreme Court finalized names for the six-member JIT tasked to further probe the allegations leveled against Sharif family in Panama Papers.
The six-member JIT included one representative each from six institutions including SBP, SECP, NAB, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI).
