This week the Panama case entered its last, and possibly decisive round. On May 16, 2016, the PM had unequivocally stated in the National Assembly (NA) that a complete record of all his sources of income and assets was available, these have neither been provided to the JIT or the SC. While Justice Ejaz Afzal…
Living in desperate times, former Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif is toking desperate measures to avoid the storm that looms large. After the PanamaGate verdict by the Supreme Court disqualifying the PM from holding office and instructing NAB to file references against the PM, his sons and daughter, the PML (N) has gone on the…
Misplaced loyalty for corrupt individuals is not only betrayal of the community but complicity in their crimes, it lies at the heart of virtually every scandal. Carrying obfuscation and obduracy too far, Nawaz Sharif insisted before the PML (N) Parliamentary party, “I still do not understand the grounds for my dismissal I am only content…
Recent reports coming out of Washington suggest that the proposal by US National Security Adviser (NSA) Mr. MacMaster for a moderate rise in the number of US troops or their private security company substitutes has been rejected by President Trump. If this is true it would at least conform with Trump’s declared goal to put…
With the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report relating to the Panama Papers now available in the public domain, the suspense of the last few weeks is over. The report is extremely thorough, lucid and pointing in its findings, maintaining that none of the respondents were entirely truthful while responding to the 13 primary questions that…
A mercenary contracted to American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Raymond Davis recently published his book ‘The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis’. The book succeeded in igniting a furore in Pakistan against the Army and the ISI, it was meant to malign our credible institutions. However once the…
Formation of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) by the SC in the PanamaGate case became cause for PML (N) party stalwarts to celebrate “victory” and start distributing sweets, indicative of a mindset totally devoid of reality. While one appreciates the Sharif family members for appearing before the JIT and not plead some medical excuse or…
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On June 25, a day before Eid, an oil tanker carrying 40000 liters of fuel from Karachi to Lahore overturned when a tyre punctured attempting a sharp turn near Bahawalpur. Oblivious of the danger, hundreds of people from surrounding localities, carrying pails, bottles and jerry cans rushed to the scene to collect the leaking petrol….
Accountability must target (but mostly doesn’t) politicians, public officials and govt departments, the lower judiciary, etc., in Pakistan. The PM appearing before the JIT because of PanamaGate is symbolic of the Supreme Court’s (SC)’s determination to bring the rule of law into governance. Criminal misgovernance has been highlighted by the JIT complaints to the SC…
