Nawaz Sharif Disqualified - Everything Smells Fishy about him & his Family

Truth v/s Hype
Jul 28, 2017 · 2 min read

The Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified PM Sharif from holding any govt position in a historic verdict on Panama Paper’s case.

The verdict on on Nawaz Sharif came after an investigation into corruption allegation on his involvement in the massive data expose — famously known as Panama Papers.

What Really Happened?

The Supreme Court of Pakistan observed that Nawaz Sharif was no longer “eligible to be an honest member of the parliament”, as reported by Reuters.

Also, the court demanded an anti-corruption cases against many involved in the corruption leak which included Sharif, his daughter Maryam, her husband Safdar and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar among others.

The verdict was empowered by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), probing the money laundering case, which claimed that Nawaz “could not satisfactorily answer most of the questions” in his appearance on June 15.

The JIT report, submitted to the Supreme Court on Monday, said he was “evasive, speculative and non-cooperative”.

“He was generally evasive and seemed preoccupied during the interview,” the report said. “Major part of his statement was based on ‘hearsay’. He remained non-committal, speculative and at times non-cooperative while recording his statement before the JIT,”

A report published by Pakistan’s Dawn wrote, “The six-member JIT’s damning report, submitted after a 60-day investigation that sought answers to 13 questions raised by the Supreme Court’s larger bench, had maintained that Prime Minister’s family owned assets beyond its known sources of income. It declared that both Hussain and Hassan Nawaz were used as proxies to build family assets.”

No PM Ever Completed Full Term in Office

Supreme Court’s decision came as another shock to the ‘democracy ‘ of Pakistan, which has failed to deliver one Prime Minster with a complete tenure of five year term. Moreover, it was the third time when Sharif (as a PM) hasn’t completed his term in office, although this time he was just an year away to make history for being the first to complete the entire term.

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