A 15-member delegation of Qatari royals including Prince Hamad bin Jassim arrived Pakistani, in Lahore.
The delegation was received by Punjab Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan and PM Sharif’s Hasan Nawaz and taken to the Sharif’s Jati Umra residence. Government sources told that Qatari delegation came Pakistan for hunting purpose in Bhakar’s area Kalar Kort.
The sources hinted that the delegation’s arrival timing appears to be crucial — comes as it does in the wake of the counsel for the premier’s sons presenting a letter from Prince Jassim before the Supreme Court pertaining to the Panamagate probe.
However, other hand lashing PM Nawaz Sharif Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan said that not even a conversation with US President-elect Donald Trump could ‘save’ the premier from the Panamagate probe.
On November 15, submitting documentary evidence on the ‘legitimacy’ of their assets before the Supreme Court Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter, Maryam Nawaz, claimed their London apartment was bought through Qatari investments.
Following Maryam reply PM Nawaz’s children’s counsel Akram Sheikh submitted a letter from Qatari Prince Shaikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani to the top court’s larger bench.
The letter pertained that in 1980, Mian Muhammad Sharif (Nawaz Sharif’s father) invested 12 million dirhams in the Al Thani company belonging to the Qatari prince’s father. “In the year 2006, the accounts in relation to the above investment were settled between Hussain Nawaz Sharif and Al Thani family, who then delivered the bearer shares of the companies referred in para 4 above to a representative of Hussain Nawaz Sharif,” the letter read.
