Maryam Nawaz, daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on Tuesday said that she “saw her father’s eyes filled with concern and apprehension over her appearance before the Panama case joint investigation team (JIT)”.
The investigation team, constituted by the Supreme Court to probe businesses and financial dealings of Sharif family, has summoned the first daughter on Wednesday.
Maryam, in a series of tweets on Tuesday said that her father has been through testing times in more than 30 years of his political career, acing out his rivals.
She added that she reassured her father and told him that “I am your daughter, trained by you, [I] will neither cower down, nor yield to pressure and nothing will deter me from taking up the cudgels against transgression and injustice”.
The first daughter also said that she would appear before the investigation team tomorrow and follow the rule of law like her father has always done.
In order to avoid any unpleasant incident from the female workers of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the context of Maryam Nawaz’s appearance before the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), women police force are deployed outside the Pakistan Judicial Academy.
The JIT has been busy in preparing the questionnaire for the appearance; it is hoped that after Maryam’s appearance the inquiry will be complete by 70 per cent. The JIT chief is also mulling to summon the prime minister again.
Maryam is summoned after her husband, Captain (r) Safdar, failed to satisfy the JIT. The PML-N female wing has also initiated an active campaign on social media in support of Maryam. According to sources in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), this whole Maryam-JIT-appearance episode may lead to an unwanted scenario owing to her party’s female workers.
