Islamabad (June 23, 2017): PPP leader and former Interior Minister Rehman Malik has reached to Judicial Academy to appear before JIT.
Talking to Media outside the Judicial Academy, former interior Minister said that I have come with the proofs. He said that I have brought the Letter, I wrote the then President Asif Ali Zardari with evidences.
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He said that People said that I would not appear before the JIT, now they can see that I have come here with proofs. He said that I was always been impartial.
Rehman Malik said that he will do justice today with the nation as well as his profession.
“After the documents I provide them [JIT] today, there will be no need [to get more evidence in the case],” he claimed.
Malik, a senior member of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), also brought with him documents related to the case.
He said he is taking two letters to the then president and necessary evidence [to the JIT], and also named the 10 investigators who were part of his team when he investigated Nawaz Sharif in the mid 1990s.
“I will only come out after the JIT is satisfied with all questions related to money laundering,” he added.
“I’m a hockey player and today I will score a goal,” he said before proceeding inside.
The PPP senator, who was the interior minister in the previous federal government, is expected to inform the JIT about the Sharif family’s involvement in the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case, according to sources. 
The joint investigation team (JIT) currently seized with investigation into money laundering allegations against Prime Minister and his family had summoned Rehman Malik with complete record on June 13. However, Malik could not appear before the team for being outside the country and had requested the JIT to give another date for appearance.
Later the JIT had asked the former interior minister to bring the record of money laundering investigation against Sharif family and appear before JIT on June 23, Friday (Today) at 2:30 pm at the Federal Judicial Academy.
Earlier Malik reached Pakistan on Monday after cutting short his foreign visit to appear before the joint investigation team (JIT).
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It is to be mentioned here that Malik was summoned earlier by the JIT. However, Malik could not appear before the team for being outside the country and had requested the team to give another date for appearance.
He had urged the JIT to postpone his appearance for a date after June 19, saying that he would cut short his visit abroad in order to appear before the JIT.
JIT has already drafted questionnaires for former interior minister Rehman Malik and PM son-in-law Captain Safdar, who is also scheduled to appear before JIT on 24 June.
The son-in-law of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Captain (Ret) Safdar, who is in Makkah for performing Umera, will return to Pakistan on June 23, Friday (Today) and to appear before JIT on June 24 at 11am.
Captain Safdar has filed petition before JIT for prolong of his appearance due to Ummrah offering, however JIT turned down his request.
Earlier in the day, Panama JIT submitted its Third fortnightly Report in SC yesterday. The SC directed the JIT to submit its final report on July 10.
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The JIT, formed on May 6 in light of the Supreme Court’s April 20 judgment in the Panama case, was given 60 days to complete its probe. However, since the original deadline was falling on a Friday, and with the JIT taking a day off on Eid, July 10 has been decided as the deadline to submit its final report.
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The bench also directed Zia to list with the AG all the relevant records that the JIT needs to complete its probe.
Walking into the court, Zia briefly spoke to journalists. When asked if the investigators will be working throughout Eid, Zia replied that they will only take the first Eid day off.
On June 7, the JIT had submitted its midterm report before the special bench.
The bench had expressed satisfaction with the JIT’s progress in the probe, and reiterated that the investigation has to be completed within the stipulated 60-day period.
Since then, the case was marred in further controversies after the prime minister’s (PM) son, Hussain Nawaz, accused the JIT of deliberately leaking his interrogation picture, and the JIT submitted a report in the court accusing several official quarters, including the PM House, of impeding the probe.
On Tuesday, the special bench dismissed Hussain’s petition asking for an end to the recording of the JIT’s sessions. The judges observed that the videos will not be submitted in court for evidence but will be used to maintain the accuracy of the sessions’ transcripts. At the same hearing, the judges gave the attorney general more time to submit the government’s response to the JIT’s accusations of creating hurdles in its probe.
Since the last progress report, the JIT summoned PM Nawaz Sharif and his brother and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Meanwhile, Hussain has been summoned five times by the high-profile probe team while his younger brother, Hassan Nawaz, has appeared twice.
The JIT has also summoned former interior minister Senator Rehman Malik on June 23 and the PM’s son-in-law MNA Capt (retd) Muhammad Safdar on June 24.
On May 22, the JIT had submitted its first progress report, at which the bench had also expressed its satisfaction and allowed the investigators to continue their work. During that hearing, a request by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf to make the report public was rejected by the court, which observed that it will do so when it deems necessary.
The six-member JIT comprises its head, Zia, Amer Aziz of the State Bank of Pakistan, SECP Executive Director Communication Bilal Rasool, Irfan Naeem Mangi of National Accountability Bureau, Brigadier (retd) Nauman Saeed of the Inter-Services Intelligence and Brigadier Kamran Khurshid from the Military Intelligence.
The Federal Judicial Academy in Islamabad has been declared as the secretariat of the JIT.
Justice Asif Saeed Khosa will be taking charge on June 29 as the acting Chief Justice of Pakistan in the absence of Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, who is proceeding on leave.
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