Qatari prince's letter holds no significance: Aitzaz

LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) stalwart Aitzaz Ahsan Sunday said that Qatar’s prince’s letter submitted in the Supreme Court in connection with the Panama Papers case holds no significance.

Speaking to reporters outside late PPP leader Jahangir Badar’s residence in Lahore, Aitzaz Ahsan alleged that the government comes up with a new fabricated story every other day.

He said there is contradiction between the statements of Sharif family members, but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cannot escape accountability.

The letter by Qatari prince Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani supports the Sharif family’s claim that no money was laundered from Pakistan.

The prince said in the letter that Nawaz Sharif’s father sold his business in Dubai in the early 1980s and invested 12 million dirhams in the real estate business of the Al-Thani family in Qatar.

The letter says that flats number 17, 17a, 16 and 16a at Avenfield House, Park Lane, London - which are now owned by the Sharif family - were registered in the names of two offshore companies and were purchased from the proceedings of the real estate business.

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