ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Monday issued orders to remove Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Murad Ali Shah's name from the joint investigation team (JIT) report and the Exit Control List (ECL). A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar heard the mega money ...

ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court directed the federal government to review its decision to place 172 individuals including prominent politicians – named in the JIT report – on the Exit Control List, as it resumed hearing the long-running mega money laundering and fake bank accounts case on ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government on Thursday decided to place the name of Pakistan Peoples’ Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on the no-fly list amid ongoing money laundering probe against him. Following the order, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) taken the custody of ...

ISLAMABAD - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's legal counsel Khawaja Haris asserted on Wednesday that his client never owned the upscale London flats. Concluding his arguments in the Avenfield Reference, Haris contended that Nawaz hadn't accepted ownership of anything including the posh flats ...

LAHORE - Hamza Shehbaz Sharif and his alleged wife Ayesha Ahad withdrew cases against each other on Monday after Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mian Saqib Nisar, brokered an agreement between the two. During the hearing of the case at the Lahore registry of the apex court, the top judge remarked that ...

ISLAMABAD – Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that there was no need to include officers of intelligence agencies in six-member Joint Investigation Team constituted to probe assets of Sharif family. Talking to newsmen outside the accountability court on Wednesday, the ousted Premier ...

ISLAMABAD - The accountability court judge Mohammad Bashir on Tuesday resumed hearing of the Avenfield case against Sharifs wherein Panamagate JIT head Wajid Zia is recording his statement. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar, who have ...

ISLAMABAD - The accountability court on Thursday again postponed the testimony of a star witness in the trial of former finance minister Ishaq Dar – Panama Papers's Joint Investigation Team (JIT) head Wajid Zia - due to non-availability of JIT's final report. Judge Mohammad Bashir resumed ...

LAHORE - The father of seven-year-old Zainab who was found raped and murdered this week has demanded of replacing the head of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe the case. “It has been learnt that the JIT head - Additional IGP Abubakar Khuda Bakhsh – is a 'Qadiani',” said Mr ...

ISLAMABAD – “The decision to disqualify me had already been taken, only a justification was being sought,” ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif alleged while discussing the proceedings of the Panama Papers case with television anchors on Monday. Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, the former PM ...

ISLAMABAD - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was ousted from the office by Supreme Court for not being honest to the nation, is addressing the parliamentary committee of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Addressing the PML-N parliamentary party meeting on Saturday, the ousted PM ...

ISLAMABAD - On Friday, the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for not disclosing his employment with FZE Capital, in a landmark decision in the Panamagate case. https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/full-text-of-panama-case-verdict-released-by-supreme-court/ The ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has admitted before the Supreme Court that he had not only taken up an employment with Capital FZE, a UAE-based company, but had also obtained a work permit, or ‘Iqama’, of the Gulf state. However, he has claimed that this fact was reflected in his ...

LAHORE - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s sons Hussain Nawaz and Hasan Nawaz are the beneficial owners of Nielsen and Nescoll Companies, the counsel of Hussain Nawaz, Advocate Salman Akram Raja revealed here on Wednesday. According to the media reports, Hussian Nawaz’s counsel Salman Raja has got ...

DUBAI - A Dubai law firm has submitted a legal opinion to Pakistan's Supreme Court on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's alleged employment in Dubai, verifying that the employment documents which imply he was employed by Capital FZE in Jebel Ali Freezone (Jafza) in Dubai until 2014 are 100 per cent ...

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan Army has denied any direct army involvement in the Supreme Court-mandated JIT probing the Sharif family's wealth in the Panamagate case. “There is no direct army involvement,” stated Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor in a press briefing ...