The prime minister’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, said on Wednesday the joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Sharif family’s assets has no case against them.
Speaking to the media after her questioning by the Panama case JIT at the Federal Judicial Academy, she thanked supporters for assembling at the venue.
Maryam said she answered honestly all the questions asked by the JIT members. “I asked them once their questions ended what we are accused of? They didn’t have an answer!” she narrated.
“After six months in the Supreme Court and 70 days in the JIT, I realised today they have nothing against us,” she explained.
This is the first JIT in the world that has been formed before knowing what charges to level, she said, reiterating what her brothers have claimed earlier.
The premier’s daughter vowed there is not a shred of evidence against Nawaz Sharif over misuse of public funds, saying “not a penny has been misappropriated”.
‘Using the daughter to get to the father’
“I was also [wrongly] involved in the Dawn Leaks [case]. The reason is the same: to put a father under pressure by targeting his daughter. Everyone knows that in Islamic culture the daughter is considered most dear to his father. But they’ll discover the Nawaz Sharif’s daughter is his strength not weakness. I’m the daughter of someone who taught me to stand up for what’s right, and not bow down before injustice,” she added.
Maryam said they too could have used technicalities to hide in the corridors of power: diverted their vehicle to a hospital after ‘back pain [excuse]’ or become an absconder hiding in an official rest house in Nathiagali but they have presented accountability for three generations.
“Those saying they’ll make us cry should know only God can make us bow down and cry…[and] because we belong to the ruling family, our judgment by God will be the most strict,” she said further.
‘Warning to opponents’
She warned the prime minister’s opponents, saying “you should know if you conspire against Nawaz Sharif, he’ll come back stronger”.
She also warned “beware of the day that Nawaz Sharif will take all this scrutiny to the people in 2018”.
Stop him if you can from becoming the prime minister again. Stop him otherwise terrorism will end and unprecedented development will take place in Pakistan, she said.
“Don’t force him to reveal the conspiracies he keeps secret from the people. ‘They’ know he won’t divulge the conspiracies in public as he holds the country dear,” she disclosed.
Concluding her speech, she did not take any questions from the media.
Following the speech, the premier’s son Hussain Nawaz briefly took the mic, saying questions over money trails should also be asked from those who have assets in Pakistan
