Post-JIT: Legal experts say PM likely to be disqualified
JIT submitted its final probe report to the Panama case implementation bench on Monday
July 11, 2017
Leading legal experts are of the opinion that it has become nearly impossible for the prime minister to save himself from being disqualified after the Panama case Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report.
Barrister Farogh Naseem claimed the premier’s disqualification is writing on the wall. “It is better if he resigns as he cannot escape disqualification,” he said.
Advocate Faisal Chaudhry said the Supreme Court cannot do anything but disqualify the prime minister following the JIT’s report.
“It was the prime minister’s mistake to not appeal the minority judgment of two Supreme Court justices in the Panama Papers case,” opined Advocate Rashed A Rizvi.
The JIT, in its final probe report into the Sharif family’s assets submitted to the Supreme Court on Monday, held that the prime minister and his three children — Maryam, Hussain and Hasan — have accumulated wealth beyond their own known sources of income.
The next hearing of the case is on July 17.
