Fontgate may leave Pak sans Sharif
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that he would neither quit nor dissolve the National Assembly.
Amid opposition’s pressure to resign, the PM said that he had done nothing wrong and would not succumb to the demands.
the Joint Investigation Team — probing the Panama leaks case — submitted its report to the Supreme Court finding “glaring disparities” between the Sharif family’s known sources of income and their actual wealth.
The PM also ordered to constitute a legal team under the supervision of advocate Khawaja Harris whereas the already formed legal team that includes Barrister Zafarullah Khan and Anousha Rehman will assist Khawaja Harris and will prepare a document after thoroughly analysing the JIT report.
Also, a typeface has sparked uproar in Pakistan after documents using the font were produced in a corruption case against Sharif — despite being dated a year before
The controversy which has engulfed Sharifs erupted last year with the publication of 11.5 million secret documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, revealing the offshore dealings of world’s rich and powerful
Along with Maryam, two more of Sharif’s four children — his sons Hasan and Hussein — were also implicated in the papers
Sharif’s PML-N party insists the wealth used to purchase the properties was acquired legally through family businesses
But the JIT report, commissioned by the court in April, said there was a “significant disparity” between the Sharifs’ income and lifestyle
the design was released.
Microsoft’s Calibri font was used to type certified papers naming Sharif's daughter Maryam as a trustee for several of the family's high-end London properties.
The plush apartments are at the heart of the case against the Sharif family, with authorities and the opposition questioning the legitimacy of funds used to buy them via offshore companies.
The identity of the legal beneficiaries has formed part of the probe, and the documents were meant to show that Maryam, who is Sharif's presumptive political heir, was a trustee only.
But the papers were dated February 2006 — a year before the font in which they are typed was in widespread commercial use, according to its creator.
The same conclusion was drawn by a joint investigative team (JIT) tasked by Pakistan’s Supreme Court with examining the corruption claims, which had London's Radley Forensic Document Laboratory assess the documents.