Last year's Panama Papers leaks, which documented the offshore dealings of numerous world's rich and powerful, alleged that Maryam was the beneficial owner of the London properties owned jointly by her brothers as well, Dawn online reported. Over 1,500 police officers were stationed in Islamabad on Thursday.
"We will cooperate fully with the investigation, and seek to clear whatever doubts are left", defense minister Khawaja Asif told AFP.
The opposition Pakistan People's Party ( PPP) has claimed that there are two laws operating across the country - one for the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and the other for the country's poor. His children later used the holding companies to purchase properties in London, according to the court.
Sharif told parliament previous year that his family wealth was acquired legally in the decades before he entered politics and that no money was siphoned off-shore.
Rather than ruling for or against Sharif, the panel ordered a new investigation, which will seek testimony from the prime minister and his sons.
According to data released by the Multi Agency Group which was set up a year ago to ensure a "speedy and coordinated" probe against those Indians whose names find a mention in the Panama Papers, 424 was the number of Indian clients of Monsack Fonseca whose PAN numbers had been traced, of which 205 have accepted links to offshore entities mentioned by the expose, while 60 others remain untraced.
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"The Supreme Court has said Nawaz Sharif is not Sadiq or Ameen".
Opposition leader Imran Khan said he would lead protests demanding Sharif's resignation, saying the prime minister had lost the moral authority to stay in office while being investigated.
"That will only happen if the PM is ultimately found guilty of money laundering or tax evasion by the (investigation)".
Analyst Michael Kugelman, of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, called the judgement "anticlimactic".
Pakistan, which marks its 70th anniversary of independence later this year, has seen a surge in optimism in recent months.
Amongst the important world leaders named in the papers, there was Vladimir Putin, Xi Jingping, Nawaz Sharif and the late Benazir Bhutto.
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