Panel summons Sharif’s daughter

islamabad — Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, has been summoned to appear before the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in connection with the Panama Papers probe into the family’s assets, the media reported on Tuesday.

Maryam will be questioned by the JIT for the first time. In the summons addressed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, the JIT has asked Maryam to appear before it on July 5.

Maryam is currently in London to attend her son’s graduation ceremony, PML-N leader Talal Chaudhry told DawnNews shortly after the summons were issued. The Supreme Court-appointed JIT has also asked the prime minister’s sons Hussain and Hassan Nawaz to appear before it for further questioning on July 4 and July 3, respectively.

Hussain, the premier’s elder son, has appeared before the JIT for questioning five times; whereas Hassan has been questioned three times.

The prime minister’s cousin, Tariq Shafi, has also been summoned to make his second appearance before the JIT on July 2.

The six-member JIT is due to present its report before the apex court on July 10. In its judgement of April 20 in the Panama Papers case, the Supreme Court had constituted a JIT and empowered it to summon the prime minister, his sons and any other person necessary, to investigate allegations of money-laundering, through which the four apartments in London’s Park Lane area were purchased. —