ISLAMABAD – Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Khurshid Shah lauded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for accepting the opposition’s major demand to write a letter to the chief justice for setting up a commission to probe Panama papers.
“After writing the letter to the CJ, there is no room for street protest against the government,” Khursheed said while speaking to a private TV channel. “It was a unanimous decision of all opposition parties to write a letter to the chief justice for setting up a commission. However, some misconceptions were surfaced that judges are reluctant to become member of the commission,” he said.
The opposition leader said the opposition proposed that the government to write the letter to the chief justice. “If he (CJP) refuses then mull over the second option,” he said. He added that they were grateful to the prime minister for accepting their demand. He further said that they had also proposed forensic audit should be carried out through an international audit firm as it involved money and bank transactions.
“The Terms of reference (TORs) should be audited by an international audit firm,” he said. To a question, Khurshid said that Nawaz took a right decision as it was a way forward to get rid of this scam. He conceded the commission should also probe into mega scandals, kickbacks, written off bank loans etc.
The opposition leader said that everyone should have complete trust in the commission as it would be under the superior judiciary. He said that they would also give their TORs for the commission adding that after setting up the commission there should be no justification for any protest.
He said neither the opposition nor politicians, or national media leveled allegations against the prime minister and his family members. He added that it was an international issue which was raised by the international media. To another question, he said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had also the same demand to write a letter to the chief justice.
