ISLAMABAD: Hassan Nawaz, the younger son of Prime Minister, has alleged that children of Nawaz Sharif were being summoned by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to pressurize him and bring to standstill the progress and prosperity of Pakistan.
After spending over two hours being grilled by the JIT, Hassan said, “I have provided all the documents related to my business and assets in UK.”
“They found nothing and now looking for any justification to charge us,” he said. 'UK authorities where I am doing business for the last 15 years have never accused me of wrongdoing, they are satisfied.'
Hassan maintained that he was not a Pakistani citizen but appearing before the JIT on PM's order.
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The PM’s son was optimistic about coming out clean after all this probe ended. “I asked them (JIT members) to tell me what is my fault, here the river is flowing in reverse where a loophole is being dug out.”
‘JIT taking U-Turn’
Prime Minister's Special Assistant Asif Kirmani accused the JIT of taking a U-Turn from its mandate of probing Sharif Family's London properties.
He said that the JIT has hired services of a London-based law firm on a heavy price. The same documents could have been acquired from the Supreme Court, he maintained.
"This is the people's money. The public wants to know who the JIT obliged by getting the legal firm on board," he said.
The JIT report would remain inconclusive unless the statement of Qatari prince is incorporated in it, Kirmani added. Why the JIT is avoiding going to Qatar, it is not on North Pole, he asked. ‘If you are investigating London flats then you should go to Qatar.’
He claimed that after the JIT did not find anything on the London’s Park Lane flats, investigators are now probing the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, which has been quashed by the Lahore High Court.
Qatari letter
Meanwhile, former prime minister of Qatar Prince Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabar Al-Thani has written another letter to the JIT to provide him the schedule for its visit to Doha.
It is the third letter that the Qatari prince has written to the JIT on the same subject where he has informed the team that he would welcome it in his office and verify all the contents and facts that he wrote in his letter that was produced in the Supreme Court of Pakistan with regard to his family’s business association with the Sharif family of Pakistan.
The JIT is bound to submit its final report on July 10 as the apex court has told the body that no extension shall be given.
Ishaq Dar summoned
Finance Minster Ishaq Dar is scheduled to appear before the JIT today at 03:00 pm. PM’s elder son Hussain Nawaz and daughter Maryam Nawaz would appear on July 04 and 05 respectively.
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