Jamaat-e-Islami submits answers of nine questions in Supreme Court of Pakistan on Panama Case

ISLAMABAD, July 25 (SABAH): Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan has submitted answers of nine questions in the Supreme Court of Pakistan on the Panama Case.

First question of the court was that due to which reason first application of Jamaat-e-Islami was separated from the central case. Jamaat-e-Islami submitted the answer that the judge hearing Panama case had stated that if Jamaat-e-Islami case’s hearing was conducted it could take many years to deliver the verdict.

Bench said that they would conduct hearing of Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s case at first and that bench had main focus on Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif’s case.

The second question of the Supreme Court was why the Panama case does not fall under the category of Income Tax Ordinance. In response, Jamaat-e-Islami submitted that Supreme Court in Panama case had declared that Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) was not taking interest in this matter and that Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had no powers to take action against public office holder. The way iron handedly dealt with the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif; other 436 individuals must be dealt in the same way.

Jamaat-e-Islami argued that in Panama scandal, names of individuals from more than 11 countries emerged and that those countries took legal action while in Pakistan, only action was taken against Nawaz Sharif and his family members. JIT should be constituted against 436 names present in Panama papers list. It is worth mentioning here that a bench headed by Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and comprising Justice Aminuddin Khan had asked nine questions during the court proceedings conducted on June 09.