ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Dr Asif Kirmani on Monday lashed out at the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the Sharif family’s foreign assets, saying, it has deviated from its objective.
Talking to reporters outside the JIT secretariat in Islamabad along with Hassan Nawaz, Kirmani said that the Sharif family will be meted out injustice if the JIT did not travel to Doha to record the statement of Qatari Royal in connection with the family’s London properties. Qatari Royal’s statement is necessary for completion of the probe, he added.
Accusing the JIT of acting in a partisan manner, he said that it has failed to achieve the objective the Supreme Court had appointed it for. “JIT is working beyond its mandate. It has taken a U-turn,” he claimed while begging for justice for the first family.
Kirmani also said that the apex court didn’t take into consideration their (Sharif family’s) reservation. “Yet we respect the judiciary,” he added. He told the reporters that the Panama JIT had hired a legal firm in London to secure the documents about the first family’s flats in London despite the fact that they had already been submitted in the apex court.
Referring to the JIT’s questioning about Hudaibiya Paper Mills, he said that the matter with regard to the paper mills had already been closed, yet it was flogging a dead horse. He said that Sharifs were subjected to ruthless accountability during former president Gen Pervez Musharaf’s rule.
