Pakistan Protests Will Target PM Over Panama Papers Leak

Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan is leading a party rally on Sunday to rail against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, seizing on the Panama Papers leak linking Sharif's family with offshore wealth as a second chance to unseat the leader.

Former cricket hero Khan, who staged protests in Islamabad for months in 2014 over alleged electoral fraud, has threatened to call new demonstrations for Sharif's resignation, saying this month the prime minister has lost the "moral authority to rule."

This month, leaked documents from the Mossack Fonseca law firm in Panama showed Sharif's sons Hassan and Hussain, and daughter Maryam, owned at least three offshore holding companies registered in the British Virgin Islands that engaged in at least US$25 million in property and acquisition deals.

Sharif said his children have done nothing wrong — he gave in to opposition demands for a Supreme Court appointed inquiry commission on Friday and said he would resign if it found wrongdoing — but opponents accuse the family of using the tax haven to launder stolen money and dodge taxes.