Now the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan has taken up the issue of the Panama leaks. In Thursday’s hearing, the SC has issued notices to Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, Hassan Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz, Captain Safdar, Ishaq Dar, Attorney General, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), and adjourned the hearing for two weeks. These notices were issued in response to the constitutional petitions filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Sheikh Rashid seeking PM’s disqualification on Panama Papers leaks. Since the disclosure of the Panama leaks, the leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has failed to respond to allegations of corruption. After the Panama scandal, the PTI chief 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 issue is that 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 how to start the probe. 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. There can be other factors for owning offshore companies as tax evasion cannot be termed the only reason for stashing money abroad, and therefore, the premier can still clear all the ambiguity by presenting credible evidence about all his assets but it has not happened so far. 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 for the acceptance of their demands regarding the accountability of the PM and his family members. Though government is sweating hard to put the country’s economy on track, yet the Panama issue has put a blemish on its reputation. 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. *