ISLAMABAD: Opposition has denied the news of withdrawing Prime Minister’s name from Panama Leaks.
Leader of the Opposition in Senate, Aitzaz Ahsan offered an explanation today to his previous statement of being willing to omit Prime Minister’ name from investigation of Panama leaks involving his family.
According to Ahsan, the joint opposition has defined ‘family’ in the proposed Terms of References. In opposition’s view, investigation of accused person’s family will include his parents, spouse, children, and grandchildren.
Clearing out the confusion, Ahsan said that Nawaz Sharif’s name, written separately in the proposed TORs will be deleted but investigation would start with his family.
Hussain Nawaz and Maryam Safdar were named by Panama Papers for owning offshore companies, he said adding that premier’s name, individually, would be deleted but would remain there indirectly because of the relation with Hussain and Maryam.
On the other hand Hamid, an ex-officio member of the Parliamentary Committee framing Terms of Reference (ToRs) on Panama Papers, has been made member of the body in place of Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Muhammad Asif.
“A notifiication has been issued in this regard by the National Assembly Secretariat,” official sources in the secretariat told APP Friday.
According to the previous notification, Senators Muhammad Ishaq Dar, Aitzaz Ahsan, Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, Muhammad Ali Saif and Ilyas Ahmad Bilour; and Members of the National Assembly Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Khawaja Saad Rafique, Anusha Rehman Khan Advocate, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi, Sahibzada Tariq Ullah, Chaudhry Tariq Bashir Cheema and Akram Khan Durrani were members of the committee.
While, Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid was attending the committee meetings as its ex-officio member.
