ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Saturday rejected the inquiry commission proposed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to probe Panama Papers — an unprecedented leak of 11.5 million files from an offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca.

While addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Saturday, Imran said he was “very disappointed after hearing Friday’s speech by Sharif.”

“I thought the prime minister would perhaps give an explanation of why he has the offshore accounts, but now I am positive that he has something to hide.”

“Allegations against Nawaz are not by any political party but by an international consortium of journalists,” said Imran, adding that “now the premier is under moral obligation to clear his name”.

Sharif has lost moral authority to rule, he maintained.

The PTI chief said that other world leaders have accepted the allegations against them.

“But Sharif did not give any answers in his speech, he just attacked the opposition parties.”

Imran complained that the terms of reference should have been made in confidence with the opposition and that currently it only protects the ruling party.

Information Minister Pervez Rashid hit back in response to the PTI chief’s remarks. “Imran was calling for a commission earlier, but now he is complaining about it. Perhaps, he had thought a commission would not be made. He was proved wrong,” he said. “Sharif’s hands are clean and that is why a commission has been made.”