Rehman Malik to appear before JIT today

ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister and senior member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Senator Rehman Malik will appear before the Panama case Joint Investigation Team (JIT) today (Friday) for further probe into the trail of Sharif family’s off-shores financial assets.

According to the notice issued, he has been summoned to the Federal Judicial Academy — currently the secretariat of the JIT — at around 2:30pm.

Malik was previously asked to appear before the probing body on June 17 but later was rescheduled on June 23 (today) as he wasn’t in the country at that time.

He has been summoned to record his statement in the 45^th meeting of the JIT, chaired by the FIA’s additional director general, Wajid Zia.

The JIT has asked the former interior minister to bring with him the record of money laundering investigation against the Sharif family.

Malik has been the Federal Investigation Agency’s director-general and also investigated Nawaz Sharif for corruption during the second government of Benazir Bhutto in the mid-1990s while being in the FIA.

The JIT has also summoned Captain (retd) Safdar, son-in-law of Prime Minister Mohmmmad Nawaz Sharif, on June 24.

The JIT, formed on May 6 in light of the Supreme Court’s April 20 judgment in the Panama case, is probing the prime minister's family's global financial assets.

So far, the JIT in its investigation has recorded statements of several members of the Sharif family, including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his sons; Hassan and Hussain.

The team will complete its 60 days on July 7 as ordered and will submit its report of investigations to the Supreme Courts’ special implementation bench on July 10.