Dr Kissinger in one of his writings, wrote about ZAB: “Pakistan was too small a country for the infinite political longings of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto”.
I am sure if some future sage has some reason to write about MNS, he is going to say: “Pakistan was too poor a country for the boundless passion of Mian Nawaz Sharif to get his name written among the wealthiest politicians of the world”.
There is so much to write about what this debt-ridden and generously misgoverned country has gone through in the years since the plane of General Zia ul Haque was blown up in the air on August 17, 1988. At that point of time, Mian Nawaz Sharif was Chief Minister of Punjab, Pakistan’s biggest province.
The seeds of the story that was to be titled as PANAMAGATE had already been sown at that time. If the BBC story is to be believed, and if the recent statement of a German newspaper regarded as credible about Maryam Safdar being the owner of the Mayfair flats (that are the central theme of the Panama case), it can be confidently stated that Mian Nawaz Sharif was already on his way (during his early days in power) to building a huge fortune for his family.
This Panamagate is confined essentially to the past of Mian Nawaz Shairf and his family. Since then the family has enjoyed the ‘blessings’ that power brings, at a far larger scale in the late 1990s and in the period between 2008 and now.
The most recent reflection of the mindset of the Sharif family is the news that Rs. 200 million are to be allocated to all National Assembly members of the PMLN to consolidate their position in their constituencies, keeping in view the next election.
Is this bribery?
Or Plunder?
Whatever it is, some historian in the future is certainly going to contemplate writing a book titled PLUNDER OF PAKISTAN.
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