Sharif Raj is a classical example of what a Fascist Order looks like in this era. Fascism didn’t die with Hitler and Mussolini. Or with Franco and Dr. Salazar. It has come back again and again to grace the world map in one or the other country.
One character in a novel about Nazi Germany says: “I do fear the power of the uniform flaunting Swastika, but my blood freezes in my veins when a plainclothesman with Swastika in his intentions, puts his hand on my shoulders. The thought instantly comes to my mind: It is now my turn to perish”.
It is not possible for Mian Nawaz Sharif’s N-League and his regime to enact that kind of terror in Pakistan of this decade because of his failure to have subordinated the State’s two most powerful institutions to his Supreme Will. But he can go as far as to let loose a Rana Sanaullah, a Daniyal Aziz, a Khwaja Saad Rafique, a Maryam Aurangzeb, a Talal Chaudhry or a Nihal Hashmi on those he has ‘accounts’ to settle with. The last-named took even the Supreme Court of Pakistan by shocked surprise when he acted out a Sultan Rahi scene before cameras thundering murderously at those who had dared to bring the children of Mian Nawaz Sharif—his beloved leader—into the orbit of accountability.
“Oh thee wicked men, thou have committed the ultimate sim. And thou will perish like thou never existed.”
This is what Nihal Hashmi would have said if he had been a Shakespearean character. But he looked a laughable caricature of Sultan Rahi in this Maula Jatt role.
He had assurances that he would ultimately get away with what he would be doing. Otherwise he would have stopped short of saying: “Thou will retire one day. And thou and thine families will be like sitting ducks.”
In my view Mian Nawaz Sharif was talking to the Judiciary that had dared to do the UNTHINKABLE.
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