No matter how much emphasis the spokespersons of the ruling party give on their presumptive view that Mian Nawaz Sharif and his children have shown great magnanimity by agreeing to appear before the JIT, the fact remains that they had and have no option but to respect and observe the orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Exercising any other option would have meant allowing the charges stick, and the verdict of Justice Khosa and Justice Gulzar to be exonerated.
Due to long and numerous sessions of interrogation in which the two sons of the Prime Minister have been involved there has been a negative impact on the minds of many regarding the credibility of the JIT. These many have thought that there was no point in allowing the ruling party to promote a perception that the prime minister’s children have submitted humbly and gracefully to mistreatment on the part of the arrogant and biased JIT, and they have done so only to prove that they are going an extra mile to in the cause of Law and Justice.
Two incidents have been instrumental in building a perception that the JIT hasn’t come down hard on the ruling party’s dirty tactics. Number one; the Nihal Hashmi’s threatened violence; and number two; the so-called photo-leak.
In the end all misgivings about the JIT may prove wrong, and the people of Pakistan may rise to the realization that the Judiciary that has handled this case is not the same judiciary that had been finding ways and means of coming to the rescue of the Sharif Family.
After all this is no small incident in our history that a sitting Prime Minister has been made to appear before a JIT formed to interrogate him and his family in an alleged act of white crime.
This is actually an open-and-shut case. All that the Prime Minister needs to do to earn a NOT GUILTY verdict is to produce the documents that on the one hand establish the ownership record of the London flats from 1993 onwards, and on the other hand are also found to be a credible money trail.
All these long question-and-answer sessions are infact waste of time, and unnecessary if the Sharif Family has the documentary proof of their claims. The fact that the Prime Minister’s appearance before the JIT has been found necessary means that his sons have failed to satisfy the JIT in over sixty hours of interrogation.
- Latest
- Trending
