Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Leader of Babar Awan has said that the three-member special bench of the Supreme Court (SC) may announce the Panama case verdict on Friday.

Talking to media outside the Supreme Court (SC) here rejected the impression that cases against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and chairman PTI Imran Khan are the same.

There are some who say that if court convicts Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Panama case then Imran should not be spared. Similarly, a friend has said that its Imran’s turn after Nawaz Sharif but this could not be because the cases against Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan have no similarities whatsoever, he added.In addition Babar said that the Panama case Supreme Court bench is an implementation bench.

A government lackey started calling Imran and Nawaz cases same after the three-member bench Panama case implementation bench of the Supreme Court reserved its judgment, he added. Once Nawaz Sharif is removed from his post, Imran Khan will replace him as prime minister.

These three judges had put up 13 questions before the JIT that probed Prime Minister Nawaz, his family members, and other for their involvement in the Panama case but Sharif and his family members failed to answer these questions. In addition, Sharif family was also asked about the account numbers of Qatari prince which it failed to provide.

Saying that one of the three judges of the three-member Panama case implementation bench will be going on leave next week while the other will be hearing cases at SC Registry at Lahore Babar said that he expects the bench will announce the verdict tomorrow. In addition, it may be remembered that Supreme Court also works on Saturday, he added.

It is pertinent to mention here that one judge of the three-member Panama case implementation bench Justice Ejazul Ahsan will be going on annual leave next week, while another member of the bench Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh will be hearing cases at Lahore Registry from next week. Thus two members of the Panama Bench will not be available in Islamabad till August 11.