Panama case decision salient features
Shares
Panama Case decision salient features of the judgment are as follows.
- Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to appear before a joint investigation team which will be formed to probe the Panama Papers scandal.
- The bench has ordered the authorities to form a joint investigation team within seven days to investigate the accusations mentioned in the Panama Papers against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
- Officials from the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI), State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), National Accountability Bureau (NAB) along with other state institutions.
- Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice Gulzar Ahmad, in their dissenting notes, wrote that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was not eligible to be premier as he was not Sadiq and Ameen. The rest of the bench called for additional investigation of the accusations.
- The Qatari prince’s letter, presented as evidence by the Sharif family in the case, was rejected by the Supreme Court.
- The bench remarked whether Hassan and Hussain Nawaz were in the position to buy flats in London at such a young age.
- The bench also remarked that the authorities should investigate how money was laundered to Qatar.
- The bench has ordered the investigation team to submit its report within 60 days.
