ISLAMABAD: The five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa has resumed hearing the Panama Leaks case seeks seeking declaring Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to hold his position over the revelation of of the names of his children in the Panama Papers.
Counsel of the prime minister Makhdoom Ali Khan continues arguing his side of the case from Friday. He had argued that his client has nothing to do with any offshore company neither in the past nor now and owns no offshore company in British Virgin Island. My client is not a director, shareholder, or beneficiary of any offshore company, he had said.
Prior to the start of hearing of the case today there was an altercation between Minister of State for Information Maryam Aurangzeb and Secretary Supreme Court Bar Association Aftab Bajwa. Shaikh Rasheed and Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami also talked to the media outside the Supreme Court before the beginning of the hearing.
Imran Khan was also present in the court.
At the start of the hearing today Justice Khosa asked the prime minister’s counsel how much more time would he be taken. Makhdoom replied that he would talk about the contradictions in speeches, dependent, and the jurisdiction powers and will try to conclude his arguments over Articles 62 and 63.
He also said that the lawyers stopped him from entering the court premises at the gate. They said that if their demands are not accepted till this evening they would not let me come in tomorrow, he added.
