ISLAMABAD: The apex body of the lawyers community, Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), on Saturday suggested the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu notice of the ongoing controversy related to the Panama leaks. At a meeting of the executive committee, the PBC called upon all the political parties to arrive at a consensus over the term of references (ToRs) of the purposed inquiry commission within seven days. The meeting concluded that failing to develop the consensus, the Supreme Court itself should convert the letter of the federal government and the media reports into a petition in the exercise of suo motu powers. The PBC said that the apex body strongly supports the SC on investigation of the Panama leaks. “Keeping in view the law settled by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in relation to Article 184(3) of the constitution, if there is one case in the history of Pakistan in which the Supreme Court should take cognizance, it is the present issue. It is rather the call of the nation that the Supreme Court should interfere,” the PBC statement said. The council also rejected the present ToRs and said that the attempt to tangle all the citizens of Pakistan who are named in the Panama leaks is an unfortunate attempt to delay the proposed inquiry so that the matter is lost in the annals of history.