ISLAMABAD: The government is considering some retired bureaucrats to head the commission that will look into the Panama leaks. The commission will investigate the reports about ruling family’s offshore companies, sources said on Thursday. The sources said that Shoaib Suddle, former inspector general of the Sindh Police, would be one of the two members of the commission that would be headed by another retired bureaucrat. “The plan to appoint retired bureaucrats to the commission was discussed in government circles after most of the retired judges refused to head the inquiry commission,” a senior lawyer and politician told Daily Times on condition of anonymity. Not even a single retired judge of good reputation is ready to head the commission, which will look into the allegations of tax evasion and offshore companies against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family. There are reports that the prime minister had tasked former Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry with convincing a retire judge to head the commission, but to no avail. Sheikh Ahsan-ud-Din, spokesperson for Chaudhry’s Pakistan Justice Democratic Party, dismissed the reports as baseless. The government contacted five retired judges of the Supreme Court – Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal, Justice Sahir Ali and Justice Tanvir Ahmad Khan – through prominent personalities, but they refused to head the commission. Supreme Court Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali observed during the hearing of a case two days ago that it was executive’s, not judiciary’s, duty to investigate the reports of the Panama Papers. Legal experts say that chief justice’s observation is being seen as a reply to those who wanted a judicial investigation into the Panama leaks, which led to the allegations that prime minister’s family was involved in tax evasion and money laundering. The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has proposed to develop Terms of Reference (TORs) for collaboration with the bodies constituted under the UN conventions against corruption. The SCBA has reiterated its offer to mediate in this national issue and develop a transparent and effective mechanism for investigation. SCBA President Zafar Ali said that investigators would have to look into the affairs of the offshore companies and source of their funding. He said the SCBA was discussing various options to force the government to conduct an investigation into the Panama leaks.