Be done away with it, Sires, once for all and the sooner the better
RAWALPINDI: I’m fed up with seeing some of the king’s cronies and other jokers perpetually occupying the idiot box whenever I switch it on and require some help. These more-loyal-than-the-king critters look so pathetic while trying helplessly to defend in vain something so obviously wrong. Do they or does anyone else have any doubts in their mind about the London flats not belonging to the Sharifs or not to have been purchased by them? And, if these do belong to them, then they must account for the money these were purchased with. It is as simple as that. What is this all about the immunity and exemptions? Why are they trying to play upon the words, find legal lacunae and indulge in hairsplitting against what ethics and morality dictate? By their clever manoeuvring, they have almost put the epic judiciary itself on trial instead of offering themselves before it for the sake of justice. The entire nation is looking expectedly but somewhat askance towards this most eventful phenomenon of our history and waiting impatiently for the outcome. Be done away with it, Sires, once for all and the sooner the better.
Col (retd) Riaz Jafri
Published in The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2017.
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