Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has said that his party does not agree with the idea of a commission that would investigate the Panama Leaks case and that his party would rather want for the supreme court to give a verdict at the end of the hearings.
“We feel that the bench hearing the case is qualified,” he said speaking to journalists on Thursday. “The Supreme Court should hold a hearing on daily basis.”
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court had asked all parties in the Panama Leaks case to decide if they had wanted the formation of a commission or not.
He said that a commission will only be fruitful if the prime minister resigns. “Otherwise, Nawaz Sharif will affect the working of the commission,” he said.
He said that when PTI had decided to approach the court over the Panama Leaks case people were skeptical. “Because the public has stopped believing in institutions. This fact was also acknowledged by the Supreme Court.”
He said that, according to him, PTI had already won the case in the Supreme Court. “Nawaz Sharif’s lawyer had said that in the parliament he had given a political statement- which means he lied.”
This was a reference to Prime Minister’s legal counsel in the Panama case, Salman Butt’s statement in court that the speeches that the premier had made on the floor of the parliament were not meant to be taken as his legal position. “Those were not legal testimonials rather, mere political statements.” Earlier, the premiere’s speeches were one of the three questions that the bench has asked of his legal counsel, the other two being how the prime minister’s children formed the companies and who in the family was dependent on whom.
“Nawaz Sharif has to answer as to why he lied,” he said adding that he will accept whatever verdict the SC gives.
