Maryam Nawaz appears before Panama JIT amid strict security
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz appeared before the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing Sharif family’s offshore properties amid strict security measures around the Federal Judicial Academy (FJA) where the six-member body is conducting its proceedings.
Her Husband Captain (retd) Safdar, brothers Hussain Nawaz amd Hasan Nawaz, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Information Minister Maryam Aurangzeb and other family member and ministers were with Maryam in the convoy.
She is the sixth member of the Sharif family to appear before the JIT formed on May 6 in the light of the Supreme Court’s April 20 judgment in the Panama Leaks case.
Maryam will be questioned about the dependency, estates owned by her and Sharif family and exchange of gifts worth millions of rupees. She is appearing before the JIT for the first time however, her brothers have been summoned several times in the past few days.
PML-N was unhappy over the summoning of Maryam. Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif expressed displeasure and said there was no moral ground for summoning her.
“Our culture teaches us to respect women,” he said, adding “women in the Sharif family were also subjected to mistreatment during the unconstitutional government of Pervez Musharraf.”
The JIT is bound to submit its conclusive report by July 10.
‘Will neither cower down nor yield to pressure’
A day before appearance, in a series of tweets on Tuesday, Maryam said her father had been through testing times in more than 30 years of his political career, acing out his rivals.
“Yet, as an affectionate and protective father, I saw his eyes filled with concern and apprehensions over his daughter’s appearance before the JIT,” she stated on the social media.
She tweeted she reassured her father: “I am your daughter, trained by you. [I] will neither cower down nor yield to pressure and nothing will deter me from taking up the cudgels against transgression and injustice.”
Political Platform
Commenting on her appearance, Talat Hussain, senior journalist and analyst said, it is a platform for Maryam to be launched in politics. He said if she had political ambitions, which are clear, she would appear as heir of PM Nawaz in the politics as Hussain Nawaz and Hasan Nawaz are not very much interested in the politics due to their businesses abroad.
She waved to the crowd gathered outside the FJA, which is a sign of defiance by the family, he commented.
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