Here is a unique case of a Prime Minister who is not only not prepared to step down from his position of the highest authority in the country, to face a criminal investigation, but is hell-bent to go all-out to extract a judgment of his own choice from the system.
This system in the past has served him well. For nearly one-third of a century he has been in a position to manipulate, mould and shape this system in accordance with his special interests and objectives. His political career has been hugely boosted by his ability and readiness to buy out loyalties, favours and judgments. When this special ability has not worked, he has organized godfather-like operations—and used brute mobster-force to overpower his opponents.
He has lived in a blissful belief that he has taken such total control of the instruments of power in the system that there is zero-likelihood of any accidental mishap. But then comes a man called Imran Khan. And the institutions he regards as a threat to his power start churning out men of some mettle-men like General Raheel Sharif, General Qamar Bajwa, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Gulzar Khan, Justice Ijaz ul Hasan, Justice Azmat Saeed, Justice Ijaz Afzal and most importantly Justice Saqib Nisar.
Why can’t he buy them out? What has gone wrong with his money? How dare they raise from the minions serving in his system, a JIT that is thinking of asking him to go to them—and explain his position?
“I have to find a why out. They have named me ‘godfather,. I have to prove I am.”
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