Tag: Panama case

A glaring omission

Pakistan’s accountability court erred in the case against Nawaz Sharif, argues Salman K Chima.

July 19, 2018

Sharif meets top aides to deal with JIT report fallout

Amid calls for his resignation, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday got into a huddle with his top aides to chalk out a strategy to deal with the Panama case probe panel's damning report that recommended filing of a graft case against him and his family. The six-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that probed …

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July 12, 2017

Defiance by tweets in Pakistan

What had been simmering for a long while erupted into the open last week when the military, through the DG ISPR’s tweet, publicly rejected a ‘notification’ issued by the Prime Minister’s Office. The letter, which was in fact meant for various ministries to take action and dubbed by the media as a ‘notification’, brought the …

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May 3, 2017