Zardari acquittal is a classical example of the frivolous, fault-ridden and fraudulent character of our ‘justice-deliverance’ system.
It has taken the NAB nearly sixteen years to come to the conclusion that Mr. Zardari is not in possession of assets beyond his income. This reference against Zardari Sahib was filed so very very long ago. And the NAB court has chosen exactly this occasion to give its verdict against the ‘prosecution’ Imran Khan has good reasons to state that he smells ‘Muk Mukka’ (Deal) in this acquittal (at a time when Mian Nawaz Sharif desperately needs Zardari’s support in the Parliament).
Asif Ali Zardari arguably is one of the two richest men in the country—-the other being Mian Nawaz Sharif. Zardari Sahib has piled up assets after assets in the country and abroad through quite ‘legitimate’ means. So pronounces the NAB. Legitimacy here means ‘well-calculated and well-concealed plunder’.
In a recent interview to Arshad Sharif of the ARY, Mr. Zardari in ‘a moment of unguarded truthfulness’ said that one can own scores and scores of properties, businesses and bank accounts without ‘lending’ one’s name to any. The legal system is quite liberal and permissive in this respect.
Do you remember the 007 operation of the-then Pakistan envoy in the U.K, Wajid Shamsul Hassan—in which scores of containers of incriminating evidence against Mr. Asif Ali Zardari and family was transferred from Europe to some unknown destination?
Remembering those ‘images’ on the TV screen, one can’t help entertain the idea of taking any such ‘Mr Clean’ to a suitable interrogation room where sufficient evidence is voluntarily provided by the ‘interrogated’ against himself.
Who knows who is going to be interrogated that way in the times to come?
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