General Sanaullah Rana, exercising special powers granted to him by either Pakistan’s prime minister or the chief minister of Punjab has stated that the NAB won’t be allowed to act in Punjab to please anyone. He has stressed that any NAB activity should be based on solid and tangible evidence.
So authoritative is the tone of Rana Sanaullah that I have been unable to resist the temptation to call him General Sanaullah. He has brought to my memory the tone and the words of the Martial law administrators of the good old days. There may be some who may find the idea of a man of Rana Sanaullah’s background and stature talking like General Yahya Khan or General Zia ul Haque rather revolting, but it is a familiar tradition that king’s cronies love to simulate their lord’s ways and words. Only a day earlier Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif had warned the NAB against the consequences of acting against innocent citizens without substantial and credible evidence.
Why is the king worried? Also his cronies.
Are those honourable and innocent citizens against whom the NAB has acted much to the annoyance of the king and his cronies, so devoid of common sense that they, while committing theft or burglary, leave behind tangible and credible evidence?
It is a generally recognized fact the worldover that any person living beyond his or her known sources of income simply can’t but be engaged in one or the other ‘business’ of questionable nature.
And there is an acknowledged way of determining his or her known sources of income. The income tax and wealth return he or she files!
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