Two key ministers of Mian Nawaz Sharif’s cabinet have come out with statements that can compete with each other for winning the “Joke of the Decade” award. Khwaja Asif the adhoc Minister of Defence stated on Wednesday the 20th of April that the Army Chief’s declaration that his institution stood for rooting out corruption from the country was in fact and in effect endorsement of the Mian government’s zero tolerance for corruption. Thousands of miles away the Minister of Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was telling the world (in New York) that the Army and Mian’s government were on the same page on the issue of corruption and that Army Chief’s statement was a proof of his support for Mian Sahib.
I am sure General Raheel Sharif should have found it hard to control his laughter as well as rage on reading and listening to these statements.
The very fact that the discipline-minded General had to issue this statement more than two weeks after the “Panama Leaks” scandal rocked the world, and sent the Mian family and his cronies on a wild spree of mutually contradicting statements, is a clear indication of the fact that the government’s inaction to respond to the questions raised in the Panama Leaks had made the General run out of patience. One wishes this kind of statement had come from the office of the Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau instead of the General’s mouth.
Quite clearly the whole of Pakistan is on one page with the Army Chief, minus those who are involved and engaged in massive corruption and whose monumental wealth is a living proof of the dictum that behind all great fortunes there are crimes.
Thank you General for not being on the same page with those engaged in the Plunder of Pakistan.
