Pakistan's Jamaat-i-Islami seeks Supreme Court order for inquiry in Pandora Papers case
Published 09 Nov,2021 via Dawn–Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq filed in the Supreme Court on Monday a petition seeking a directive for initiation of an inquiry against Pakistani citizens whose names have surfaced in the recently leaked [Pandora Paper]s.
The present petition is a continuation of an earlier [plea] also moved before the apex court, seeking an investigation against 436 Pakistani individuals whose identities were revealed in the Panama Papers leaks in 2016.
Moved through Advocate Muhammad Ishtiaq Ahmed Raja on behalf of the JI emir, the fresh petition argued that the process of investigation into the matter was to be started by the government, but neither the names of the persons revealed in the Pandora Papers were being acknowledged by the government nor was any action proposed by it so far.
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