LAHORE: Captain (r) Safdar on Saturday reportedly said while responding to Joint Investigation Team’s (JIT) questions that he views the Panama probe as a modern form of 58(2b) – the constitutional article invoked to dissolve assemblies, Daily Times Monitoring Desk has learnt. According to TV reports, Safdar was questioned by the JIT for at least 5 hours. He was repeatedly asked questions about wealth belonging to his wife, Maryam Nawaz and father-in-law, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. “I am only related to my wife and not to her ancestral wealth”, he reportedly said. “Nor am I interested in my in-laws’ ancestral wealth.” He lodged his protest against the investigation saying he views the Panama Leaks probe as a modern form of 58(2b) – the infamous constitutional article invoked to dissolve assemblies. Safdar said the Panama Leaks case is a punishment for the Prime Minister for starting the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. One JIT member reportedly told him that he is indulging in political discussion instead of answering questions; to which Safdar reportedly said he wasn’t discussing politics but “country’s future”. During the interrogation, Safdar objected that he is being asked the questions already answered by Hassan and Hussain Nawaz. At one point, he said the JIT should have sent him the questions beforehand. Members of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) youth wing were present outside the Judicial Academy to express their solidarity with Safdar. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his two sons and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif have already recorded their statements before the JIT. Later while talking to the media, Safdar said that the PML-N and the Sharif family were abiding by orders of the apex court. Safdar said he was treated in an appropriate manner by members of the JIT. “Its [the JIT’s] conduct was appropriate and I responded to the questions asked by the JIT,” he said. He said that he would not disclose what took place during JIT proceedings as the matter was pending before the court. “Panama case is not against Nawaz Sharif. It is against a person who made Pakistan a nuclear power; the one who built motorways and took Pakistan out of darkness,” he said. He asked why no one was questioning the people who owned Surrey palaces. He also called upon Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan to distance himself from conspiracies against the country. “Otherwise, history will remember him in a negative manner,” he said. ECP: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday provided complete details of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law Captain (r) Safdar’s assets to the Joint Investigation Team (JIT). The JIT was informed that PM’s son-in-law owned a plot worth Rs 0.25 million in Islamabad and a car worth Rs 2 million in Saudi Arabia. “Whereas, he also possesses Rs 4 million in cash and jewellery worth Rs 1 million. He also has another plot in Mansehra, worth Rs 0.7 million,” the ECP said. The ECP stated that Safdar had not shown the value of 160 kanal agriculture and 15 acre land in Rajanpur.