Imran Khan has done well to declare that the PTI would oppose the new Tax Amnesty Scheme tooth and nail which is being introduced to provide benefit to the tax thieves and tax dodgers who are being allowed to whiten their black money by paying only one percent tax on it. Salim Mandiwala , a leader of the PPP says by introducing this scheme the FBR has, in a way, admitted its failure to bring the elite of the country under the tax net. One would have hoped that many more voices of dissent would be heard in National Assembly over the said Scheme but it seems that many so-called political allies of Nawaz Sharif are also sailing in the same boat with him on the issue.
Had he lived Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto would have been 88 tomorrow, the 5th January 2016, when his birthday is going to be celebrated by the political party he created back in late 1960. He was the most dashing prime minister ever seen by this country. He was an orator par excellence and was extremely charismatic. Providence had given him a great opportunity to turn around the economy of the country by breaking the back of feudalism and by undertaking other revolutionary steps to ameliorate the lot of the teeming millions of this country who had voted for him blindly in the 1970 elections fully endorsing his party’s slogan, ROTI, KAPRA and MAKAN. He had also the rare opportunity of developing parliamentary democratic traditions in the true sense of the word in the country after he had made all the opposition parties agree on the adoption of 1973 constitution which, no doubt, was his great political achievement but he started making amendments in it even before ink on its draft was hardly dry. He did carry out reforms in the various sectors of life but since they were half-hearted and just an eye wash their benefits could not reach the common man. Making the leaders of almost all the Muslim world gather in Lahore for the Islamic Summit meeting in 1974 was, no doubt, his greatest achievement in international affairs. He committed the biggest folly of his political career by allowing the state machinery to rig the 1977 elections in some selected constituencies in his bid to get absolute majority in the NA and PAs which ultimately brought all the opposition parties on a single platform for launching a political movement aimed at over throwing his government which ultimately resulted in Zia’s long martial law during the course of which he was hanged in a criminal case, which to many legal experts, amounted to his judicial murder.
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