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Significance of ex-Qatari PM?s interview by JIT
ISLAMABAD: At least six of thirteen questions framed by the Supreme Court in its April 20 judgment in the Panama case pertain to the money trail of the Sharif family’s foreign business dealings provided by former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani, making it mandatory for the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to get his statement.
The JIT inquiry was undeniably going to be incomplete, imperfect and *****y in the absence of the Qatari prince’s side of story, which unequivocally approves the stand taken by the Sharif family in the apex court. The Sharif family vehemently stressed more than once that the JIT should **t wind up its inquest without Hamad Bin Jassim’s deposition. “The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will have serious reservations and apprehensions if Qatari prince’s statement was **t included in ultimate report of JIT, which has given three options to the Qatari prince, who asked it to come to Qatar to record his testimony. He has accepted one option so **w the team must go to Qatar,” Special Assistant to Prime Minister Dr Asif Kirmani said on Monday. A lot of correspondence has taken place between the JIT and the Qatari leader. The JIT has to realise that its findings will be inconsequential without the Qatari leader’s account. The six questions that relate to his version, submitted by the respondent Sharif family in the Supreme Court during hearings in the Panama case, included: where did its (Dubai’s Gulf Steel Mill’s) sale proceeds end up; how did they reach Jeddah, Qatar and the UK; whether respondents Hussain and Hassan in view of their tender ages had the means in the early nineties to possess and purchase the flats; whether sudden appearance of the letters of Hamad bin Jassim is a myth or a reality; how bearer shares crystallised into the flats; who, in fact, is the real and beneficial owner of Nielsen Enterprises Limited and Nescoll Limited. In one of its hearings by the three-member special implementation bench on being informed by JIT head Wajid Zia that the Qatari leader did **t appear before the investigators, Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed had observed on May 28 that the Gulf leader’s letters should be ig**red if he did **t present himself before them. “We will throw the letters out of window if he doesn’t appear before the JIT and the respondents (Sharif family) will have to face the consequences in case of his failure.” This showed the importance of Hamad bin Jassim’s letters in the investigation of the case as well as its Significance for the Sharif family. The respondents’ cause tremendously hinged on these communications which in fact provided the much sought after money trail of the London flats and the two offshore companies. Despite exchange of a number of letters by Hamad bin Jassim and the JIT, the Qatari leader repeatedly declared in his exclusive interviews to this newspaper that he stands by each and every word of his documents and that he was keen to answer all kinds of questions from the JIT in support of their contents. In **vember last, the Sharif family submitted in the apex court a 397-page document consisting details of transactions as well as receipts of payments since 2011 including a letter from the Qatari prince, saying the flats were purchased through the settlement of accounts between it and the Qatari family of Hamad bin Jassim’s father. The letter addressed to the court stated that in 1980, Mian Muhammad Sharif invested 12 million Dirhams in the Al Thani Company belonging to the Qatari prince’s father. In the year 2006, the accounts in relation to this investment were settled between Hussain and Al Thani family, which then delivered the bearer shares of the offshore companies to a representative of Hussain, it said. The production of the Qatari letter had surprised, if **t shocked, many in the court at the time because of being a concrete documentary proof of the money trail. Since word go, the Sharif family stated that Hamad bin Jassim was ready to face any questions about his letter and the subsequent communication in support of the previous one. The production of the letter had upset the petitioners who had argued that the Sharif family has **thing to present to endorse its stand. The premier’s daughter Maryam will have a rare appearance before the JIT on July 5 as the team’s sixty-day inquiry is about to come to an end. The remaining days will be consumed by the JIT in writing down its final report that is being equally keenly awaited by the first family, its political rivals and all others. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Significance of ex-Qatari PM?s interview by JIT || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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