ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif presided over a high-level consultative session prior to his departure for the Federal Judicial Academy where he is being probed by the Panama case Joint Investigation Team (JIT) today.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan also attended the meeting.
Dar briefed the premier over the documents he will be taking along with him.
The JIT is probing the premier’s family’s global money trail in light of the Supreme Court’s April 20 judgment in the Panama Papers case.
Extraordinary security arrangements were made in and around the academy, where the JIT secretariat is based. As many as 2,668 security personnel, including 400 from the FC and 180 from the Punjab Rangers, have been deployed for the event. A security cordon has been put in place around the building, with special entry for the media only.
The Islamabad Traffic Police has also come up with a special traffic plan, so traffic moving in and out of sector H-8 is not disrupted.