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Will judicial activism enable JIT to get accountability?
Global Village Space|
Ikram Sehgal |
The Supreme Court’s (SC) seriousness of purpose in the PanamaGate case was evident from the brusque manner it dismissed Hussain Nawaz’s apprehensions of “personal bias” regarding two members of the JIT. The SC’s inference was clear, the PM and his family should come clean about the money trail or face the consequences. The Sharifs responded as usual through their proxies to maintain deniability. Because of “First Son” Hussain Nawaz’s interrogation by the JIT, Nehal Hashmi went overboard threatening those conducting accountability with a dire vengeance.
Given the storming and ransacking of the SC by a PML (N) Mob in 1998, this was taken very seriously. Nehal Hashmi was summoned to appear before the SC. Though Hashmi’s party membership was immediately suspended by the PM and he immediately resigned as a Senator, attacks by proxies are very much a “Sharif thing”. They are skating on very thin ice here.
Read more: Hussein Nawaz grilled by PanamaGate JIT
One believes the COAS did obtain some not-so-public cast-iron guarantees, coincidence that no provocative tweets have since originated from our “de-facto PM” Mariam Nawaz.
The civil-military divide on the DawnLeaks issue was bridged, albeit after the “paper removal” of Pervaiz Rasheed, Tariq Fatemi, and Rao Tehseen Ali but with virtually no change in the “notification” that was the reason for the Army’s grief in the first place. Being pragmatic in the greater national interest instead of reacting, the Army (and Gen Bajwa personally) took a hit on their credibility by giving the PM this face-saving “reconciliation”.
The govt’s contempt for such niceties was immediately on display by deliberately taking Tariq Fatemi along in the PM-led govt delegation to China. One believes the COAS did obtain some not-so-public cast-iron guarantees, coincidence that no provocative tweets have since originated from our “de-facto PM” Mariam Nawaz. Unless she controls her natural “anti-khaki urges”, any further targeting the Army will have grave consequences for Mian Nawaz Sharif from its simmering rank and file!
To quote Dr. Bettina Robotka of Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, “I was surprised that the Army caved in. The damage done to the few honest people within the system punished for their being honest cannot be exaggerated. We should finally drop the fiction of democracy at least according to the western model. It doesn’t work even over there anymore! And a feudally minded society as the Pakistani is unable to maintain the basic idea of democracy – equality in front of the law and equal opportunities for everybody, only a mutilated democracy is possible.”
read full story: Will judicial activism enable JIT to get accountability?
Global Village Space|
Ikram Sehgal |
The Supreme Court’s (SC) seriousness of purpose in the PanamaGate case was evident from the brusque manner it dismissed Hussain Nawaz’s apprehensions of “personal bias” regarding two members of the JIT. The SC’s inference was clear, the PM and his family should come clean about the money trail or face the consequences. The Sharifs responded as usual through their proxies to maintain deniability. Because of “First Son” Hussain Nawaz’s interrogation by the JIT, Nehal Hashmi went overboard threatening those conducting accountability with a dire vengeance.
Given the storming and ransacking of the SC by a PML (N) Mob in 1998, this was taken very seriously. Nehal Hashmi was summoned to appear before the SC. Though Hashmi’s party membership was immediately suspended by the PM and he immediately resigned as a Senator, attacks by proxies are very much a “Sharif thing”. They are skating on very thin ice here.
Read more: Hussein Nawaz grilled by PanamaGate JIT
One believes the COAS did obtain some not-so-public cast-iron guarantees, coincidence that no provocative tweets have since originated from our “de-facto PM” Mariam Nawaz.
The civil-military divide on the DawnLeaks issue was bridged, albeit after the “paper removal” of Pervaiz Rasheed, Tariq Fatemi, and Rao Tehseen Ali but with virtually no change in the “notification” that was the reason for the Army’s grief in the first place. Being pragmatic in the greater national interest instead of reacting, the Army (and Gen Bajwa personally) took a hit on their credibility by giving the PM this face-saving “reconciliation”.
The govt’s contempt for such niceties was immediately on display by deliberately taking Tariq Fatemi along in the PM-led govt delegation to China. One believes the COAS did obtain some not-so-public cast-iron guarantees, coincidence that no provocative tweets have since originated from our “de-facto PM” Mariam Nawaz. Unless she controls her natural “anti-khaki urges”, any further targeting the Army will have grave consequences for Mian Nawaz Sharif from its simmering rank and file!
To quote Dr. Bettina Robotka of Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, “I was surprised that the Army caved in. The damage done to the few honest people within the system punished for their being honest cannot be exaggerated. We should finally drop the fiction of democracy at least according to the western model. It doesn’t work even over there anymore! And a feudally minded society as the Pakistani is unable to maintain the basic idea of democracy – equality in front of the law and equal opportunities for everybody, only a mutilated democracy is possible.”
read full story: Will judicial activism enable JIT to get accountability?
