PPP calls for JIT to probe prime minister's 'assets' in Britain.

Byline: Syed Irfan Raza

ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Wednesday called for investigation against Prime Minister Imran Khan and his advisers for reportedly owning properties in the UK.

Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, the spokesman for Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, demanded the constitution of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on the document presented by Justice Qazi Faez Isa to the Supreme Court. The document claimed Prime Minister Khan and his advisers owned properties in the United Kingdom.

Addressing a press conference at the PPP media office in Islamabad with Nazir Dhoki, Senator Khokhar said that a similar JIT was formed in the cases against ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former president Asif Ali Zardari and Mr Bhutto-Zardari.

The senator said the PPP would also approach the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECC) for action against the prime minister despite the fact that the ECP had not yet decided foreign funding case against Imran Khan and for this...

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