A tug of war between the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is going on as the Supreme Court (SC) is proceeding with the Panama Leaks case on day to day basis. Apparently, it has become an uphill task for the judiciary to decide the matter. During the last hearing of the case, the SC gave the PTI and the ruling PML-N two options – either to go for the formation of a fact-finding judicial commission for in-depth investigations or to continue with the five-judge bench currently hearing the case. However, the PTI opposed the formation of the commission and announced that it would boycott proceedings, if the court constituted a commission. On the other hand, the legal team of the Sharif family remained in favour of formation of a commission. Therefore the bench agreed not to form a legal commission however it has adjourned the case until January 1st next year as the current Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali is retiring at the end of this month and Justice Saqib Nisar will therefore chair the next proceeding of the case. The tussle started between the two political parties when the names of several Pakistanis including Nawaz Sharif’s children Maryam, Hussain, and Hasan surfaced in one of the world’s biggest ever data leaks through an online searchable database made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in April 2016. The government proposed formation of an inquiry commission to probe the Sharif family’s alleged links to offshore accounts. But the federal government and the opposition could not agree on drafting joint Terms of References (ToRs) and finally the SC shouldered the responsibility to decide the high-profile case after the PTI threatened to hold another sit-in in Islamabad. The PTI chief has accused the rulers of building assets worth billions of rupees through massive corruption. So far the governing elite has shown non-serious attitude to resolve this issue. Why has the Sharif government failed to satisfy the opposition over the Panama leaks and not presented credible evidence about all its assets in Pakistan and abroad? The Panama leaks issue was not a local one. Rather, many important personalities and leaders from many countries were named in the leaks for having offshore assets. In the rest of world, the Panama issue has become history but it is only Pakistan where government and opposition are wrangling on this particular case. The opposition is calling for the accountability of the premier and his family members, while government is using dilly-dally tactics regarding a proper probe into the matter. Government should have come up with a strategy to clear all the mess, but apparently it has not taken it seriously. Due to the adamant attitude of the government, the situation is worsening. This has prompted the PTI and other political parties to approach the SC. The whole world has moved on but the authorities in Pakistan are still stuck at Panama. It is high time politicians grew up and started taking right decisions in the best interest of the country and its masses. It is the responsibility of both the government and the opposition to sit together and find a pragmatic solution instead of fighting on the streets. The best platform to resolve all these issues is parliament where all elected representatives of people can converge to evolve a strategy to address the concerns of the opposition as well as provide an opportunity to the prime minister’s family to prove their innocence in allegations of corruption.*