Summary The government has assured opposition parties to write letter to CJP to probe the matter.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk / AP) – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will address the nation on the issue of Panama Papers today (Friday), Dunya News reported.
According to sources, Nawaz Sharif will apprise the nation about formation of judicial commission to probe the matter.
The move comes on the heels of calls on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign after his family members were named in the offshore accounts mass leak from Panama‘s Mossack Fonseca firm.
After opposition parties’ pressure, the PML-N government on Thursday hinted at writing a letter to the Chief Justice (CJ) of Pakistan (CJP) Anwar Zaheer Jamali for the formation of a judicial commission to probe the matter.
Earlier, the government had proposed Justice (r) Sarmad Osmany’s name for the commission but opposition leaders — specifically the cricket-star-turned-politician Imran Khan — rejected this, demanding instead that Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) and white collar crime experts make up the commission.
Earlier on Thursday, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif sacked six officers, including two generals, after they were convicted in a court martial for corruption.
The move involved a lieutenant-general, a major-general, three brigadiers and a colonel, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
The officials declined to elaborate on the trial, the corruption charges, but confirmed that the officers have not been sentenced to prison terms. The officers were allowed to go home after being stripping off all military benefits, except for medical and pension benefits.
Earlier this week, Gen. Raheel Sharif said there should be an across-the-board accountability — a statement that was taken as ramping up pressure on the government of Prime Minister Sharif, who has had a history of uneasy relations with the military establishment.
"By the grace of God, we‘re clean," Nawaz Sharif said in a statement Thursday, referring to the calls for his resignation on corruption charges.
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