LAHORE: The proof of offshore companies doing the rounds from Panama papers are enough to send the Sharif family behind bars. No leader in the world, named as a client in the Panama Leaks, has denied the facts.

Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri said this at a press conference via video link from Canada here on Wednesday.

He demanded the Sharifs be booted out, sent to jail and interrogated, only then they would reveal the crimes they had committed.

He said had the Constitution, Parliament, the FIA, the FBR and NAB been independent, action against the Sharifs would have been taken by now.

Dr Qadri revealed that on March 21, 2016 Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s son, Hassan Nawaz, had bought a property in 1-Hyde Park, London, for 42.5 million pounds and the papers were signed on March 30, 2016. He said the loot and plunder had been continuing for the last 35 years and if the relevant institution wanted to arrest the corrupt, they could have abundant proof.

“It seems they do not have the will or are under pressure not to arrest the actual corrupt people,” he said.

He called it a moral obligation of every one to struggle against corruption, extremism and terrorism and dropped a hint about joining hands with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s planned anti-government move, saying that he was ready to join any alliance and support any political party for the cause.

He alleged the present rulers had the support of extremists and militants to win the 2013 elections and that they paid the militants money for exempting the PML-N from attacks.

The PAT chief lauded the recent statement of the army chief that collaboration between corruption and terrorism was a serious threat to the existence of the country, saying that he wished the army chief succeed in eliminating this nexus.

He said the Panama Leaks were the largest financial scandal of the country and now the prime minister had left Pakistan for the UK for a medical check-up.

He said when the prime minister return, even 10 medical boards would be unable to find even a single ‘bacteria’ of illness in the prime minister and the premier would have in his hands all the answers to the questions of TV anchors and other media people.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2016