Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said that the head of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) Wajid Zia will have to reveal the names and identities of 30 to 40 persons, including experts and supporting staff, who assisted the JIT in probing the Panama Papers case. "The JIT head reveled before the court that JIT took assistance from 30 to 40 experts but no one knows them, as their names and identities have been kept secret," Sharif said while talking to reporters outside the Accountability Court which is seized with corruption cases against him and his family members.
Wajid Zia during the cross-examination told the court that the secretariat staff of JIT comprised 30 to 40 experts, in addition to supporting staff. The supporting staff included security guards, record typists and a cook, he said. Sharif questioned who these 30 investigators and 10 supporting staffers? He also asked: "From which department they had come and who assigned this responsibility to these people?"
He said that these 40 people had prepared the case behind the curtains. According to him, these "unknown" people played role in National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cases. He said that Zia refused to reveal the names of 40 people when he was asked by the defence counsel. "Zia, you were the head of JIT but you are not the owner of this country," he said, adding that he and the whole nation want him to disclose these names.