PTI summons APC of opposition parties' provincial leaders

PTI summons APC of opposition parties' provincial leaders
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Summary The APC has been sought to devise strategy over Panama Leaks.

LAHORE (Dunya News / AFP) – Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday has called All Parties Conference (APC) of provincial leaders of the opposition.

The APC has been sought to devise strategy over Panama Leaks and will be attended by the leaders of PTI, Jamat-e-Islami (JI), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).

The meeting will be held in Punjab Assembly’s opposition chamber and will be briefed at 3 pm.

After Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s arrival in Pakistan from London, opposition parties have once again started consultation process on the issues of Panama leaks and appointments of members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

PM Nawaz returned home from London on Saturday after undergoing successful open heart surgery in the British capital.

Sharif, whose operation was carried out in the last week of May, remained in the UK for more than six weeks. It was the 66-year-old’s second major cardiac medical procedure in five years.

A close aide of the Sharif family Khawaja Ahmad Hassan said "the PM is healthy," and that "the entire family and the party workers are happy about his return".

Nawaz Sharif left the country shortly after the so-called Panama Papers linked his family to a series of offshore companies.

The premier insists his family has done "nothing wrong", saying the claims had been investigated twice, decades ago, under the tenure of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.

But the opposition has demanded his resignation after the leaked papers claimed his children owned London property through an offshore company.

Nawaz Sharif took power in a landslide May 2013 general election, for the third time since 1990.

He has a power base rooted in Pakistan’s richest and most populous province, where he is known as the Lion of the Punjab.

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