ISLAMABAD — The day before a major protest was planned against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday said a commission would investigate corruption allegations against the premier, whose children's offshore financial holdings were listed in leaked documents, the Panama Papers.

The decision came after the documents from a Panamanian law firm appeared to show that three of Sharif's children had companies in the British Virgin Islands through which they owned properties in London.

—Staff and news services