Pak SC reserves its order on case
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday reserved its judgement in the Panamagate case filed against Prime-Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family over alleged corruption.
The judgement was reserved after counsels of both sides concluded their arguments before a three-judge bench of the apex court headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan. At the same time, an official close to the Sharif family was arrested for tampering with the records of family companies of the PM. SEC P chairman Z afar Hijazi was taken into custody on Friday.
Earlier in the day, the court opened the confidential volume of the Panama gate inquiry report submitted by the Joint Inv es ti ga- tion Team (JIT) tasked to probe Sharif family’s offshore wealth on July 10.
The top court bench had not made "volume X" public on the request of JIT head Wajid Zia, who was of the opinion that it would be helpful in carrying out further investigations.
The volume reportedly contains details of the six-member inquiry panel’s correspondence and documents obtained from foreign countries during the 60-day probe into the offshore assets of the ruling family in line with the top court’ s historic April 20 verdict.
Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh observed that they will not deviate from any law while delivering a judgment in the case. “We are conscious of the fundamental rights of petitioners and respondents,” he observed.