ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique on Saturday said that the Panama Papers issue was nothing but an international conspiracy to hamper the development process in the country.
Talking to the media here, the minister raised specific reservations on the report recently submitted by Joint Investigation Team (JIT).
Currently, the party’s legal team was examining the report and would present its stance before the court, he added.
He said it seemed that an international conspiracy was being hatched to derail Pakistan’s economic development process as some elements did not want to see the country as a prosperous and powerful one.
He said the politics of allegations was not serving national interests in any manner.
“Let us do politics on the basis of performance, instead on the basis of allegations,” he said. “We are engaged in pulling each others’ legs which is serving the interests of enemies of Pakistan,” he added.
He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was determined to take the country’s economic strength to new heights, however, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan was creating hurdles in his way.
Former Supreme Court Bar Association president and human right activist Asma Jehangir said on Friday that media should stop post-mortem examination of the joint investigation team’s (JIT) report in the Panama Papers case.
Talking to the media at the Lahore High Court, she said the JIT report was not a verdict of the apex court. The JIT report is an investigation and it could be challenged, she added.
She said that if police could re-investigate a case, then why re-investigation could not be done through a new JIT.
He said that the Panama case was pending with the apex court and the media should stop the postmortem of the JIT report.
