Opposition leaders speak to the media after their meeting. PHOTO: INP
The decision came following a consultative meeting of the opposition parties at the residence of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Aitzaz Ahsan.
The opposition pored over the draft of ToRs submitted by the government in the last meeting to the Parliamentary Committee on Panama Papers last Saturday.
“We’ve reached a conclusion that the government wants to ensure immunity for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family through a set of vague and open-ended ToRs,” said Senator Ahsan while talking to journalists outside his residence.
“Today [Tuesday] an opposition team will submit its previous 15 ToRs in a rearticulated form, he added. “We will give workable and practical suggestions to the government through our rearticulated ToRs. We hope the government will consider them with an open mind.”
Senator Ahsan said a 15-day timeframe given to finalise the ToRs was about to end and the opposition would not tolerate any time-buying tactic of the government.
PTI’s Shah Mehmood Qureshi said accountability was need of the hour, and no one would be given immunity. “Our ToRs reflect will of the nation and the government should accept them and present itself for accountability,” Qureshi said, adding the opposition was also open to ‘just demands’ of the government.
Barrister Saif, a member of the parliamentary committee, said the opposition had decided on the demand of the government to re-word its previously submitted ToRs in a bid to make it acceptable to the government.
The sixth meeting of the 12-member Parliamentary Committee on Panama Papers will be held today (Tuesday) at the Parliament House.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 7th, 2016.
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