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ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the daughter of the Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will appear before the joint investigation team (JIT) probing money laundering allegations against the Sharif family on Wednesday.
Although the ruling party has been adamant that summoning her was an “egoistic decision” on the part of the JIT, Ms Sharif expressed her resolve to face investigators in a series of messages sent from her Twitter account on Tuesday night.
“He has seen [and] been through the most testing times, in the 30-plus years of his political career… yet as an affectionate [and] protective father, I saw his eyes filled with concern & apprehensions over his daughter’s appearance before JIT,” she tweeted.
“I told him that I am your daughter, trained by you, [and] will neither cower down, nor yield to pressure [and] nothing will deter me from taking up the cudgels against transgression and injustice. Will appear before the JIT, follow the rule of law as you always have,” Ms Sharif tweeted, before concluding on a positive note: “See you tomorrow, Insha’Allah.”
Ms Sharif, who has been summoned at 11am, will be the eighth member of her family summoned so far in connection with the ongoing investigation into money laundering allegations.
The JIT has repeatedly questioned her brothers Hussain and Hassan, while it has also recorded the statements of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the PM’s son-in-law retired Captain Mohammad Safdar, the PM’s cousin Tariq Shafi, and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar — the father-in-law of the PM’s younger daughter.
Although her name appeared in the Panama Papers as the beneficial owner of the offshore companies — Neilsen Enterprises and Nescoll Ltd — which owned the four Park Lane apartments at the heart of the Supreme Court case, Ms Sharif was virtually cleared by the apex court in the Panama Papers controversy.
The court stated that the PM’s daughter “has received cash gifts from her father in substantial amounts on various occasions … receipt of gifts from the father does not necessarily make respondent No.6 (Maryam) his (Nawaz Sharif’s) dependent in the legal sense of the word”.