ISAS Briefs

What will be the impact of the latest split-decision by Pakistan’s Supreme Court in what had come to be known as the “Panamagate case”? In the 3-2 majority judgment, the Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could not be forced out of office on the basis of the evidence presented to it concerning alleged financial misdeeds by his family as revealed by the ‘Panama documents’. Nonetheless, the Court ordered an inquiry into the financial dealings of the Prime Minister and the Sharif family.