ISLAMABAD: After the Public Accounts Committee, the National Assembly standing committee on finance on Thursday also took up the Panama leaks disclosure and decided to investigate every aspect of this scandal while Speaker National Assembly made it clear that he had not stopped any committee from taking up the Panama issue.
According to spokesman of the National Assembly, Special Secretary National Assembly Secretariat is to lodge a complaint before the Pakistan Electronic Regularity and Media Authority (PEMRA) Chairman regarding supposed disinformation aired on several news channels on 8th September 2016 about a direction falsely attributed to the Honourable Speaker that the issue of Panama Leaks should not be taken up during proceedings of any Standing Committee.
He further said that the Honorable Speaker had not made any such direction, or ever restrained the Standing Committee from considering any agenda or issue. He said that the channels which had spread the said disinformation would be proceeded against under the law including initiation of proceedings for committing contempt of the Assembly, its Committees and the Speaker who had ‘wrongly and maliciously’ been maligned through the alleged disinformation.
A spokesman revealed that one of the Standing Committees of the National Assembly, namely, the Public Accounts Committee, comprising members of PML (N) and other Parliamentary Parties, considered the agenda relating to Panama Papers with the directions to all concerned including State Bank of Pakistan, Federal Investigation Agency, Foreign Affairs and Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) for doing the needful during its next meeting.
Even the Standing Committee on Finance, Economic Affairs, Revenue, Statistics and Privatisation also today discussed the issue of the Panama Papers with the determination to take it up again during its next meeting. All this nullified the veracity of the contents of the said news constituting disinformation spread by the news channels, the spokesman concluded.
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