As the Panama Leaks case in the Supreme Court moves on towards what could either become a breakthrough in Pakistan’s moral fortunes, or culminate in another anti-climax in our history, Mian Nawaz Sharif continues to endorse Ibne Khaldoon’s seven hundred years old dictum that “a state in which governance falls into the hands of its traders or businessmen, is unlikely not to disintegrate morally and eventually self-destruct.
Infact if the soul or ‘Rooh’ of Iben-Khaldoon had the power to witness the scenario of today’s Pakistan and to hear the proceedings of the Panama case in the Supreme Court, he would look into the eyes of the Prime Minister of this country and say: “I am indebted to you for proving me so very very right. It is not your fault that you have amassed such monumental wealth for yourself and your family. Any businessman in your position will do it with the same zeal and abundance.”
The five ‘Justices’ sitting in judgment to decide whether corruption should be granted freedom to prosper simply because it is practiced by clever men, or should be dealt with an iron hand so that its malignancy is arrested, are likely to be remembered in Pakistan’s history either in golden letters or with morbid dismay.
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