The shrieking headline of DAWN says: Bitter foes PTI & PPP launch attack on Sharif.
This could be the biggest political hoax of the year. Everyone understands that both Asif Ali Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif are submerged knee-deep in the quagmire of the charges of monumental corruption— and both have amassed huge wealth abroad in the form of bank accounts properties and businesses.
They are fighting for survival. The threat to them both comes not just from Pak Army now. Imran Khan has in five years risen from political mediocrity to challenging stardom. Both have drawn a strategy to plant a fake opposition on the national scene so that the threatening role of Imran Khan as a destroyer does not acquire monumental proportions, A.A Zardari is the planted opposition. Both Mian Sahib and Zardari Sahib have a history of drowning each other in the bottomless sea of abuses and accusations, and then suddenly surfacing in a fond embrace. This will happen again. In case both survive the tidal wave of anti-corruption sentiment in the nation. Nothing suits Mian than Zardari playing spoiler’s role against Imran Khan. And nothing suits Zardari more than Mian Sahib surviving the onslaught against him.
The political scene has taken a dramatic turn with Imran Khan’s shocking revelation that he was offered Rs. 10 billion to keep his mouth shut regarding the Panama Papers.
I don’t say Imran Khan is incapable of lying. We are all human. But to lie is against the software inducted in IK’s soul.
As for Mian Sahib, he has a mammoth financial/ business empire to keep from crumbling. Out of power he will be a dead shark. He will go to any length to try to save his power. Rs. 10 billion are peanuts for him.
Will the members of the JIT to be formed, be invulnerable to both pressme and temptation?
I have here a dialogue to quote from Godfather.
Vitto Corleone says to his lieutenant: “Now we will make an offer he can’t refuse.”
Mian Nawaz Sharif’s history in this respect till now has been a story of huge successes.
If an offer was really made to Imran Khan— and it would have been made if IK says so—MNS indulged in under-bidding.
Abraham Lincoln in a dialogue with a tycoon who had come to him to buy out his signatures—suddenly lost his coolness—and shouted: “Guards—throw this man out.”
The bidder when was being taken away turned and asked: “You were so kind and polite right through our conversation Mr. President. What happened suddenly?”
“Everyone in the world has a price. You were coming pretty close to mine. I had to act before that moment”, replied Lincoln.
Mian Sahib couldn’t come close enough to IK’s price. I remember one of Mian Sahib’s statements from 1984.
“ I don’t trust a person I have not bought out.”
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