Panamagate JIT opts to summon Prime Minister

• PM will be sent a notice along with questions; JIT would
• ask him to appear before investigation team with answers
• Panama Case JIT's probe process unlawful, says Musadik;
• SC bench to hear Hussain Nawaz's application on May 29

ISLAMABAD: The Joint Investigation Team formed to investigate the Panama Leaks scandal has decided to summon Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and a notice in this regard has been prepared.

According to details, the Prime Minister will be sent a notice along with the questions which the JIT will pose to him. The JIT would ask the premier to appear before the investigation team with the answers.

The Joint Investigation Team will not head to the Prime Minister House to probe the premier. The JIT also dismissed reservations expressed by Hussain Nawaz on two of its members.

Chief of Awami Muslim League (AML) Sheikh Rashid Ahmad spoke to SAMAA TV and said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would ax his own foot due to the current crisis.

"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is scared and anxious," said the AML chief. "Nawaz will have to make a big decision in the end," he added.

Sheikh Rasheed said that it was possible that the premier would make an extremely important decision next month. Rashid said that when Pakistani rulers got into trouble, Jindal came to their rescue.

Meanwhile, spokesperson for the Prime Minister House, Musadik Malik has claimed on Wednesday that the process adopted by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe premier and his family is extrajudicial and the top court would be informed.

In a statement issued to express reservations of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the JIT, Malik accused the probe team headed by official of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) of not following the due path.

Statement of the PM House spokesperson has come in after Hussain Nawaz, son of the premier expressed reservations over two members of the JIT.

Reportedly, one of the two JIT members is representative of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), Bilal Rasool as his wife contested for a women's reserved seat in Punjab Assembly in General Elections 2013 as a representative of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q).

Malik said that it should be in knowledge of the apex court that whether the investigations being hailed as fair are in spirit that or not. 

Meanwhile, the three-member Supreme Court bench would hear Hussain Nawaz's application regarding reservations on Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on May 29.

According to sources, the bench headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, will conduct a hearing on reservations raised by Hussain Nawaz.

The application submitted by Hussain Nawaz raised reservations regarding two members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe Panama papers case as per the apex court's instructions. - NNI