New Delhi: Ahead of the verdict on Panamagate, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif held informal consultations with his close aides and ministers to discuss the outcomes of the Supreme Court’s decision, which could spell trouble for the PM and his family’s political paradise.
A report in Dawn said that Sharif had returned from his trip to the Maldives at Nur Khan Base on Thursday evening around 4pm. He was received by his brother, Shahbaz Sharif. Sources told Dawn that Sharif, after SC issued its supplementary cause list, consulted with close aides and members of his legal team on all possible outcomes. The sources are reported to have added that another meeting would be held today (Friday) after the SC announces its verdict in the Panama Papers case. The scandal is about alleged money laundering by Sharif in 1990s, when he twice served as prime minister, to purchase assets in London. The assets surfaced when Panama Papers leak last year revealed that they were managed through offshore companies owned by Sharif's children.
The assets include four expensive flats in London. Sharif, who has been the prime minister of Pakistan for a record three time, faces the risk of being disqualified if the court finds him guilty of corruption and money laundering. He leads Pakistan's most powerful political family and the ruling PML-N party. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said that he would resign and quit politics after the Supreme Court judgment on the Panamagate case.
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