PM deceptively portrayed innocent in court: Sirajul Haq
July 19, 2017
ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Sirajul Haq on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is being deceptively portrayed innocent.
In a media address outside the Supreme Court, the JI chief emphasised that the Sharif family's lawyer did not have a strong case to present today in the third Panama case hearing after the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) submitted its final report to the court.
"The entire nation stands by the Supreme Court," Haq said. "The courts are free and the nation is with them."
The JI chief alleged that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had expropriated public money and put forward the question if the country will be led by democratically elected leaders in the future.
The Panama case implementation bench observed on Wednesday that they have to decide whether to hear the case themselves or send it to an accountability court.
Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, who heads the special three-member Supreme Court bench, said they also have to see if there is anything in the documents linking the premier to the case.
During today's hearing, the bench also repeatedly inquired from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's counsel regarding the money trail of the London properties.
The premier's counsel, Khawaja Harris, could not provide the bench with a satisfactory answer as he resumed his arguments from Tuesday.
