You need to real further about all this.
It was during Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali's tenure that supreme court took up Panama leaks but how did it happen? The Supreme court's registrar then had rejected the PTI's petition seeking an inquiry in the Panama case. The Supreme court only took Suo moto when Niazi turned to streets and announced to lock down Islamabad. The supreme court took up this case under political pressure
Anwar Zaheer Jamali on the final day of his retirement announced the verdict asking to start a fresh trial. Once the politcized Saqib Nisar took over , he influenced the bench by all means which yeilded into making an Army dominant JIT. The bench disqualified Nawaz on Iqama and not Panama. The verdict was highly controversial and it ensued all the political turmoil every Pakistani is suffering from now.
As far as Qatari connection not being told by Nawaz in his speech, it is simple. Nawaz's speech was just a brief overview of the money trail and not a legally binding detailed response. The dracunian NAB Law "I can not prove corruption but you must tell me how you got the money and even if you tell me i am going to declare you corrupt" was used to implicate Nawaz.
Apologies for the long post.
Well, you said it yourself. SC took up case under "political pressure". What did Army have to go with it? Lets not forget that Punjab govt tried their level best to stop the march, unlike recently when govt allowed molana free hand to march, protest, sit etc wherever he wanted. Don't blame PTI for exerting political pressure sucessfully, when PMLN, PPP and JUIF attempted to do the same a few months ago and you were supporting it.
But in any case Nawaz himself had written to SC to investigate panama leaks, so he cant complain that they did!
You're right, Jilani did offer fresh trial and the trail recommended JIT but I recall that PMLN celebrating and distributing sweets when the JIT was formed! Good times! In any case, Nawaz was given ample opportunities to provide a credible defense, the facts are that he failed to (and he wasn't helped by the various conflicting statements made by his kids on various media forums).
Lets not forget that the "politicised" Nisar also took up Hanif Abbasi's case against IK. Now don't blame IK that he was able to provide the money trail whereas Nawaz could not.
I'm afraid the Qatari connection is not that simple.
AS I recall, the explanation in the assembly, was that UAE factory was sold, money was used to set up the Jeddah factory, then the Jeddah factory was sold and money was sent to UK to buy the flats. That is not a "brief overview". In fact, who can forget those words "Sir, these are the assets from which the London flats were bought". I paraphrase, but there was no mention of Qatari then. Lets not forget the multiple interviews given by Hussein where he is saying he "bought" the flats
But then when case got to court, the story changed - out went the Jeddah leg, and in came the story that money was invested with qatri and he gave them the flat as a return on investment. The story probably changed because sharif's realised that they have no paper trail to support the UAE-Jeddah-London explanation. Unfortunately for them, they didn't have a money trail for the qatri story either...except a letter filled with hearsay and an excel spreadsheet. I still remember Maryum's tweet...."trail established, case demolished". What a joke that was :)
But you know, there is actually a way that Nawaz can come out of this as an innocent, if the qatri story is true. And it can be done in two weeks. Do you want to know how?