Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said Thursday that the party does not want a commission to investigate the Panamagate case seeking a probe into Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's and his family's assets.

He instead expressed a preference for the Supreme Court to continue hearing the case.

"We do not want a commission to investigate the corruption in the Sharif family," Khan said while addressing a press conference in Islamabad.

"We demand an empowered commission under the chief justice of Pakistan, if the commission is not empowered, then there is no benefit of having one (judicial commission)," he said.

Dissatisfied with the way parties to the Panamagate hearing developed their case over nine days of proceedings, the Supreme Court on Wednesday proposed constituting a commission to hold an extensive inquiry into the matter.

"When ultimately we have to go to the constitution of the commission then why [we are] wasting time at this stage," wondered Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali during the hearing.

Earlier in April, Khan had demanded in the National Assembly that a judicial commission under the CJP be set up to probe revelations made in the Panama Papers.

However, Khan today said that whatever "feedback" he has gotten about his initial demand of a judicial commission has been negative.

"Everyone I have spoken to is against the commission ─ unless PM Nawaz resigns. Then it's fine," he said.

"If the commission is formed, it won't achieve much as the officials in the commission will be working under the PM once the case is over," Khan claimed.

Therefore, he proposed the SC decide the case. "The bench is more than capable," he added.