What certainly is hurting the over-inflated ago of the Sharif family and the well-paid sensibilities of those government and state functionaries who are acting as Sharif family’s spokespersons, is the repeated ‘use’ in the media, of the term MULZIM (accused) with reference to Hussain Nawaz, who happens to embody (in the eyes of the ruling party) the pride and honour of the Prime Minister’s family.
The five judges who had given their verdict (in the Panama Leaks case) that led to the formation of this JIT to probe into the affairs of the ruling family, had been courteous enough not to explain to the RESPONDENTS what a Joint Investigation Team meant and why the Court had chosen to follow this course in preference to the standard setting-up of an inquiry commission.
When two members of the five-member Bench found the Prime Minister guilty of having lied in the matters relating to his honesty and goodness, and thereby earned disqualification to continue to remain in his office, he had become a ‘MUJRIM’ in their eyes. But the remaining three members of the Bench thought more investigation was required to change his status from ‘Mulzim’ (accused) to Mujrim (Guilty).
Hence this JIT which is pinching the Ruling (Royal?) family in the neck.
Perhaps in the eyes of the ‘Accused’ in this case, white-collar crime is no crime at all, because it is committed with sophistication and its perpetrators act from ‘RESPECTABLE’ positions.
These ‘respectable’ criminals conveniently ignore the fact that whereas an ordinary thief or burglar hurts a person or at the most a family, those who plunder at the scale that results in the ownership of properties as expensive or high-priced as the Mayfair flats in London, hurt the whole society—infact the whole nation.
It is time that corruption should cease to be regarded as a respectable crime, and members of JITs formed to question the culprits in this respect, should cease to be cowed down by the high positions of power and influence their ‘subjects’ happen to hold.
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