Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the nominees forwarded by the central bank and the securities and exchange commission to be part of a joint investigation team that will probe Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his sons’ alleged corruption in the Panama Papers case.
“We want honest and professional officials to be members of the JIT (joint investigation team),” Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, who heads a three-member special bench that held its first hearing today to implement the court’s decision to oversee the formation and functioning of the six-member JIT. Khan said the officials nominated by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and Securities and Exchange Commission Pakistan (SECP) did not meet the court’s criteria for a transparent investigation.