Summary Leave will not be effective if a hearing of the case is scheduled in the mean time: SC
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Plea of counsel for Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in Panama Leaks case, Makhdoom Ali Khan seeking leave has been conditionally accepted by Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday.
Khan had requested the apex court to grant him leave amidst Panama Leaks case hearings from February 13 to February 24 over his other engagements. Khan stated that he has completed his arguments and the case would not suffer owing to his leave.
Chief Justice of Pakistan, Saqib Nisar has issued administrative order in this regard and conditionally approved the counsel’s leave.
The order states that the leave would not be effective if a hearing of the case is scheduled in the mean time.
A case over alleged corruption by children of the premier is being heard in the top court after a leak of a foreign law form revealed shell companies set up by the family.
In April last year, documents of Mossack Fonseca were leaked and studied by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists before they were published in Panama Papers creating waves across the world as at least 400 incumbent or former leaders of the world were named.
Opposition parties in the country demanded PM Nawaz Sharif to resign as they saw offshore companies as means for money laundering and evading taxes.
The premier remains adamant among his two sons and a daughter that not a penny of taxpayers’ money was stashed aboard.
