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Pakistan PM to appear before Panama Papers probe panel tomorrow

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will appear tomorrow before a Supreme Court-appointed team probing the Panamagate graft case, an unprecedented development that will make him the first sitting premier to depose before such a panel.<br/><br/>The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) chief Wajid Zia had summoned the prime minister to appear before the six-member probe team tomorrow with all documents relevant to the case.<br/><br/>Mr Sharif will appear before the probing officers at Islamabad's Judicial Academy, which is temporarily turned into the JIT's secretariat. In its judgement of April 20 in the Panama Papers case, the Supreme Court had constituted a JIT and empowered it to summon the prime minister, his sons and any other person necessary, to investigate allegations of money-laundering.<br/>

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