PML-N workers may reject the JIT’s report : Dr Asif Kirmani

Lahore : Prime Minister’s special assistant Dr Asif Kirmani has said that “the JIT report will be incomplete till the Qatari prince’s letter has been made part of the record”.

Addressing the media at judicial academy Islamabad, Dr Asif Kirmani said the JIT report into the Sharif family’s businesses, due on July 10, cannot be completed without recording the statement of Qatari prince Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabar Al-Thani. He said Qatari prince has repeatedly asked the JIT to record his statement if it travels to Qatar but they have not done so.

As per the JIT’s statements in the Supreme Court, the Qatari prince had refused to come to Pakistan to record his statement citing security concerns.

“The JIT has taken a u-turn from the real issues….their original mandate. They were supposed to acquire details on the London apartments, for which the Qatari letter is adequate,” added Kirmani.

If this is not carried out, PML-N workers across the country will have reservations over the JIT’s report, he said further. He said “I have not threatened the JIT, but am just relaying the feelings of PML-N workers and people of the country”.

He claimed that after the JIT did not find anything on the London properties, investigators are now probing the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case which has been quashed by the Lahore High Court.

Kirmani lashed out at certain ‘elements’ in the media who ‘attack’ the ruling family every day on TV.

Kirmani also questioned the summoning of premier’s cousin Tariq Shafi, who appeared before the JIT for the second time on Sunday.

Addressing the PML-N workers and the public at large, he said “your leader is ‘sadiq’”, and warned Imran Khan that we’ve seen your ‘calls’ before in the long march [of 2009].

Kirmani questioned why a legal firm was hired for an exorbitant amount by the JIT to obtain documents related to the Sharif family’s business when they could have acquired the same from the Supreme Court. “This is the people’s money. The public wants to know who the JIT obliged by getting the legal firm on board,” he said.