ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party has said that the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing money laundering allegations under the Panama Papers case should make public video recording of its proceedings and statements of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family, otherwise its entire work will become controversial.

`Videos of JIT proceedings should be released and their statements must be made public,` senior PPP leader and lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan said in a statement on Thursday.

PPP secretary general Farhatullah Babar, when contacted, endorsed Mr Ahsan`s demand and said that JIT should make its report public.

How a Grade 20 officer of the JIT can put harsh questions to the incumbent prime minister and his family members, Mr Ahsan asked, adding that people wanted to know what had actually happened inside the Federal Judicial Academy (FJA) where the JIT sat.

The PPP leader said that after appearing before the JIT, every PML-N leader came on media and pre-sented his or her one-sided statement, but JIT members, due to legal and moral compulsions, could not speak to media to give their point of view on the investigation.

`The JIT cannot defend itself from what is being alleged against it and, therefore,it(theJIT)should make public video recordings of its proceedings to remove all ambiguities into the matter,` Mr Ahsan said.

The prime minister, he said, was against the idea of making video recordings of JIT proceedings public.

`Why he (the prime minister) is afraid of it,` Mr Ahsan questioned.

He said that making video recordings of JIT proceedings public was in the interest of the Sharif family also because the ruling family could substantiate its claim that the JIT was going out of its way to malign the rulers.

According to media reports, the JIT has almost completed its work and has started compiling its report which will be presented to the Supreme Court on July 10.

In the light of this report, the Supreme Court will announce its verdict on the Panama Papers case filed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.