The manner in which the ‘Prosecution system’ and the Judiciary have handled the corruption cases against the leaders of our two key parties i.e the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) should put any nation with some semblance of national pride, to shame.
The cases against the PML (N) leadership lying in the NAB have infact yet to see the light of the day. Both the brothers who control the party as a private limited company have been huge beneficiaries of this lack of seriousness, responsibility and ethics on the part of the system. They too, even if completely innocent of all the allegations, should have seen to it that before they enter the corridors of power, they stand absolved of all the charges, and truly vindicated.
As for Mr Asif Ali Zardari, it will not be the first time that our judges will acquit him in a case for the simple reason that the record of the case has gone missing. The case here is regarding the assets of the PPP boss, who has ruled this country thrice—once as President /defacto CEO and twice as the spouse of the country’s Prime Minister.
On Wednesday, the NAB submitted an affidavit before the Rawalpindi Accountability Court, saying that the Bureau had provided the original case record to the court some 15 years ago, which had not been returned to the NAB till date.
Previously Zardari Sahib has been given ‘clean bill of health’ on two cases on the same grounds (non-availability of the original record).
Isn’t it a very amusing case of a well-arranged compromise between the two most ‘celebrated’ beneficiaries of this system of monumental corruption? The courts and the prosecuting authorities both have dutifully complied.
In the opinion of any patriot quite a few heads should go rolling in this context alone!
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