ISLAMABAD: The Sharif family’s spokesman on Tuesday clarified a news article saying the prime minister’s family did not submit additional doc
uments regarding the Panama
Papers case in the Supreme Court (SC) after November 30.
The spokesman said that several television channels aired news that the doc
uments submitted by Hussai
n Nawaz’s counsel revealed that the Park Lane apartments were purchased in the 1990s or before 2006.
He termed the news ‘totally absurd’ and clarified that no additional doc
uments were submitted to the court after November 30 and the last submitted doc
uments contai
ned the flats’ sales deeds &n
dash; which only disclosed that the flats, valued at £1.9 million, were purchased 20 years ago. He further said that the doc
uments were submitted on the court’sdirectives.