VCheng
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As ever, IK is perhaps showing that he’s not too different from other politicians, which doesn’t merit special criticism on its own. But his past comments vs. his current record at the very least illicits calls of hypocrisy.
If it was wrong to accept gifts at substantial discounts then. It should be the same now. If the minimally accepted practice of declaring them was necessary then, then it still is now.
IMO gifts should all be declared, discounts should be minimal and incremental with the value, and the value should be assessed by third party valuators. PM and President shouldn’t be exempted either. Anytime we give gifts, they come out of the national exchequer.
But this is not the issue here though, you can make an argument for the opposite, but you can’t make one argument in opposition, and then do the opposite in power.
The more things are claimed to have changed, the more they appear to be the same?
Exactly. And both Nawaz Sharif and IK are guilty of this hypocrisy. IK said one thing in opposition and is now doing the opposite. Nawaz is criticising this now, but during his tenure a similar request for information came via the senate regarding gifts, the PML government quashed it citing the EXACT same reasoning that’s currently being peddled by IK. Someone should remind NS of this hypocrisy before one of his rants.
This elite culture is endemic, here at least in the case of gifts there is no obvious victim, as the tax payer’s loss is abstracted. Much worse happens routinely with regards to land, plots, areas siphoned off or forcefully captured by legal means in the name of the public interest, only for housing developments and plots to emerge. Sickening elitism.
As above.