Ex-SC judge named head of Broadsheet probe body.

ISLAMABAD -- The federal government has appointed former Supreme Court judge Azmat Saeed Sheikh as head of the inquiry committee to probe the issue of UK-based asset recovery firm Broadsheet LLC.

This was said by federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz through his social media account on Twitter on Thursday.

The federal cabinet in its meeting on Jan 19 had decided to form a new inquiry committee on the recommendation of an inter-ministerial committee that had earlier been constituted by Prime Minister Imran Khan to look into the Broadsheet saga.

Speaking at a news conference after the meeting of the federal cabinet, the information minister had said the government had formed an inquiry committee to be headed by a former judge of the Supreme Court or high court with the task to investigate in 45 days the 'fresh revelations' in a verdict of a British court in the Broadsheet case and fix the responsibility on those Pakistanis who, according to the firm, had...