ISLAMABAD: The Panama Papers case Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has summoned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz on July 5.
According to a copy of the summons, acquired by Geo News, the premier’s elder son Hussain Nawaz has been summoned on July 4 and his younger brother, Hasan, on July 3.
The summons has also asked the respondents to bring forth relevant documents related to the Sharif family’s financial assets.
The JIT, which resumed work today after taking a day’s break for Eid on Monday, has asked all three siblings to appear before it at 11am on their respective call dates.
Hussain has appeared five times before the high-profile probe team whereas Hasan has been summoned twice.
The JIT, formed on May 6 in light of the Supreme Court’s April 20 judgment in the Panama case, was given 60 days to complete its probe.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as well as his brother Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif have also appeared before the JIT once each.
Moreover, the last member of the Sharif family to be summoned by the JIT was MNA Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar, Maryam’s husband.
On June 24, speaking to the media after his five-hour grilling, Safdar said “[The] Panama case is not against Nawaz Sharif – it is against the Nawaz Sharif who made Pakistan a nuclear power, the one who made motorways, steered Pakistan away from darkness”.
The premier’s son-in-law questioned why no one was questioning the people who have palaces in Surrey. He also called on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan to distance himself from ‘conspiracies against Pakistan’. The Panama case was not accountability of Nawaz Sharif but rather of the two-nation theory, he claimed.
