NRO, Corruption and Democracy in South Asia

[RiazHaq]

The recently released NRO list with about 8000 names, including 34 top politicians, is by no means a complete list of all the corrupt politicians in Pakistan; it’s mainly a list of politicians and bureaucrats included in the “NRO” deal struck between President Musharraf and late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto under pressure from Washington. The PML politicians have been explicitly excluded from the pardon under the deal. For example, it does not include the Sharif brothers, who have had serious charges of crime and corruption against them, as recently brought out by the affidavits of the PML leader Ishaq Dar, that implicated both of the Sharif brothers in money laundering. The NRO list is probably just the tip of a much larger iceberg threatening Pakistan’s national security, current stability and future prospects.

Unfortunately, the criminal justice system in South Asia is incapable of speedy resolution when the rich and powerful are accused of crimes. “The speed of the Indian judicial system means it can take 30 years to complete a case – easily long enough to live out a full political career,” Mr Himanshu Jha, of India’s National Social Watch Coalition, told the Times Online recently. If the NRO were to be allowed to lapse on November 28 as expected, the politicians in Pakistan can easily avoid accountability by filing appeals after appeals in a slow-moving justice system.

http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/11/corruption-and-democracy-in-south-asia.html

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