ISLAMABAD, 13 MAY (DNA) – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif postponed his decision of visiting the assembly today to answer questions posed by the opposition over allegations by the Panama Papers. He will visit the parliament on Monday.

The opposition maintains that the prime minister is trying to avoid a confrontation and is not up for accountability.

The government however claims that the opposition is only playing politics under the garb of fighting corruption. Earlier, the prime minister had said that the opposition is not making efforts to tackle corruption. “They are only after me.”

He was talking to journalists on Thursday night in an aircraft that was bringing them home from Tajikistan where the government signed an energy project. “One of the members of the opposition,” he said, without naming Imran Khan, “has never accepted me as prime minister.”

He added, “I will say in parliament what is required to be stated there and respond before the judicial commission what has to be asked by that forum. The opposition should not take up the role of the commission.”The joint opposition has posed a list of seven questions before the prime minister. Following are the questions the opposition prepared for the PM.

1.    Is it true that PM’s sons and daughter have shares in Ittefaq Sugar Mills and Chaudhry Sugar Mills? Have they filed tax returns on these?

2.    Have they declared their income particularly from offshore companies?

3.    What are the names of the offshore companies owned by PM Nawaz or his family?

4.    What sort of interest does the Prime Minister and his family has in Mayfair Apartment?

5.    When was Mayfair Apartment bought? Where was money to buy it obtained from?

6.    Does the PM know that Kulsoom Nawaz has already acknowledged buying the apartment?

7.    Between 1985 and 2016 how many properties has the prime minister purchased?

the opposition maintained that it will ask the prime minister questions in the parliament. “In the parliament he only has to answer seven questions. The commission will ask 700 questions. Why is the prime minister scared?” Pakistan People’s Party’s stalwart Aitezaz Ahsan said.  DNA