Sadiq Ameen صادق اور امین اور نا اہل وزیر اعظم

سپریم کورٹ نے 28 جولائی 2017 ء کو پاکستان کے وزیر اعظم میاں محمد نواز شریف کواس فیصلہ کی بنا پر اپنے عہدے سے معزول کردیا کہ وہ آئین پاکستان کی دفعہ 62 کے مطابق صادق اور امین نہیں رہے:

’’نواز شریف نے متحدہ عرب امارات میں قائم کمپنی ایف زیڈ ای میں اپنے اثاثوں کو 2013ء میں اپنے کاغذاتِ نامزدگی میں ظاہر نہ کر کے قانون کی خلاف ورزی کی ہے اور وہ اب پیپلز ایکٹ 1976 ءکی سیکشن 99 کی روشنی میں ایماندار نہیں رہے لہٰذا وہ پیپلز ایکٹ 1976 کی سیکشن 99 اور آرٹیکل 62 (اے) کی روشی میں پارلیمنٹ کے ممبر کے طور نااہل ہیں۔     الیکشن کمیشن نواز شریف کی نااہلی کا فوری نوٹیفکیشن جاری کرے۔‘‘

سپریم کورٹ کے فیصلے کے اہم نقاط:

سپریم کورٹ کے پانچ رکنی بینچ نے اپنے متفقہ فیصلے میں نواز شریف کو نااہل اور ان کے خاندان کے ارکان کے خلاف مقدمے درج کے احکامات جاری کیے۔ سپریم کورٹ کے فیصلے کے چیدہ چیدہ نکات۔

1.قومی احتساب بیورو سپریم کورٹ کے فیصلے کی تاریخ 28 جولائی 2017 سے چھ ہفتے کے اندر جے آئی ٹی، فیڈرل انویسٹی گشن اور نیب کے پاس پہلے سے موجود مواد کی بنیاد پر نواز شریف، مریم نواز، حسین نواز، حسن نواز، کیپٹن ریٹائرڈ صفدر کے خلاف ریفرنس دائر کرے۔

2.نیب نواز شریف اور اس کے خاندان کے خلاف عدالتی کارروائی میں شیخ سعید، موسیٰ غنی، جاوید کیانی اور سعید احمد کو بھی شامل کرے۔ نیب ان افراد کے خلاف سپلیمنٹری ریفرنس بھی دائر کر سکتا ہے اگر ان کی دولت ان کے ذرائع آمدن سے مطابقت نہیں رکھتی۔

3.احتساب عدالت نیب کے جانب سے ریفرنس فائل کیے جانے کی تاریخ کے چھ ماہ کے اندر ان ریفرنسز کا فیصلہ کرے۔

4.اگر مدعا علیہان کی جانب سے عدالت میں دائر کی گئی دستاویزات جھوٹی، جعلی اور من گھڑت ثابت ہوں تو ان کے خلاف قانون کے مطابق کارروائی کی جائے۔

5.نواز شریف نے متحدہ عرب امارات میں قائم کمپنی ایف زیڈ ای میں اپنے اثاثوں کو 2013 میں اپنے کاعذات نامزدگی میں ظاہر نہ کر کے قانون کی خلاف ورزی کی ہے اور وہ اب پیپلز ایکٹ 1976 کی سیکشن 99 کی روشنی میں ایماندار نہیں رہے لہذا وہ پیلز ایکٹ 1976 کی سیکشن 99 اور آرٹیکل 62 (اے) کی روشی میں پارلیمنٹ کے ممبر کے طور نااہل ہیں۔

6.الیکشن کمیشن نواز شریف کی نااہلی کا فوری نوٹیفکیشن جاری کرے۔

7.صدر مملکت ملک میں جمہوری نظام کے تسلسل کو یقینی بنائیں۔

8.چیف جسٹس سے درخواست کی جاتی ہے کہ وہ سپریم کے ایک جج کو اس عدالتی فیصلے پر عمل درآمد کی نگرانی کے لیے تعینات کیا جائے۔

قراردادِ مقاصد کے تحت پاکستان کے آئین میں حاکمیتِ اعلیٰ صرف اور صرف اللہ کی ہے اور پاکستان میں کوئی بھی ایسا قانون اور ترمیم پاس نہیں ہو سکتی جو قران اور سنت کے منافی ہو۔ اس لحاظ سے ترمیمی بل نہ صرف آئینِ پاکستان سے غداری کے زمرے میں آتا ہے بلکہ کتاب و سنت کے خلاف بھی کھلی جنگ ہے۔

قران و سنت صادق اور امین کا تصور دیتے ہیں۔ پیارے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ و آلہ وسلم کی حیاتِ طیبہ صادق اور امین کی مجسم صورت تھی۔ آپ نے جب ان خوبیوں کو ہی آئینِ پاکستان سے نکال دیا تو اس کا صاف مطلب ہوا کہ کوئی بھی جھوٹا، کذاب اور خائن پاکستان کی سیاسی جماعت کو ہیڈ کر سکتا ہے یعنی صفاتِ محمدیہ (صادق اور امین) کے خلاف کھلی جنگ چھیڑ دی۔

قومی دولت لوٹنے والے، ٹیکس نادہندہ، بجلی چور، قاتل، قرض نادہندہ، جعلی ڈگری ہولڈر، کرپٹ اور رشوت خور ، بددیانت اور فاسق افراد آئین توڑتے ہوئے پارلیمنٹ میں پہنچ جاتے ہیں۔ عدلیہ اور الیکشن کمشن خاموش تماشائی بنے رہتے ہیں۔ عدلیہ کا آئینی فرض ہے کہ وہ اس امر کو یقینی بنائے کہ اراکین اسمبلی آئین کے آرٹیکل 62 اور نمبر 63 پر پورے اُترتے ہوں۔ افسوس کہ درجنوں انتخابات ہوئے جھوٹے اور بددیانت افراد منتخب ہوتے رہے مگر عدلیہ نے صادق اور امین کی تشریح ہی نہ کی۔

فاسق اور بددیانت سیاستدانوں نے پاکستان کو انحطاط پذیر کردیا ہے اور اب پاکستانی قوم ان سیاستدانوں کے خلاف اُٹھ کھڑی ہوئی ہے۔خرابیٔ بسیار کے بعد سپریم کورٹ نے آئین کے آرٹیکل 62 اور 63 کی تشریح کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے کہ جھوٹا شخص عوام کی نمائندگی نہیں کرسکتا-

دستورِ پاکستان کے آرٹیکل 62 (1) کا مستند متن یہ ہے :

’’کوئی [مسلم] شخص مجلس شوری( پارلیمنٹ) کا رکن منتخب ہونے یا چنے جانے کا اہل نہیں ہوگا، اگر

(د) وہ اچھے کردار کا حامل نہ ہو اور عام طور پر احکام اسلام سے انحراف میں مشہور ہو۔

(ھ) وہ اسلامی تعلیمات کا خاطر خواہ علم Adequate knowledge of Islamic teachings نہ رکھتا ہو اوراسلام کے مقرر کردہ فرائض کا پابند ، نیز کبیرہ گناہوں سے مجتنب نہ ہو۔

(و)وہ سمجھ دار، پارسا نہ ہو اور فاسق ہو۔ اور ایمانداورامین Honest and Ameen نہ ہو۔ عدالت نے اس کے برعکس قرار نہ دیا ہو۔‘‘ [ اٹھارویں ترمیم 2010ء، نمبر 10 کی دفعہ 20 کی رو سے آرٹیکل 62 کو اس متن سے تبدیل کردیا گیا۔]

سپریم کورٹ نے اپنے حالیہ فیصلے میں آرٹیکل 62 کا اطلاق کرتے ہوئے لکھا کہ:

’’ کاغذات نامزدگی اپنے اثاثوں کا ذکر نہ کرنا غلط بیانی ہے اور عوامی نمائندگی کے قانون کی خلاف ورزی ہے اور اس لیے وہ [وزیر اعظم]’صادق نہیں‘ ۔

جب سپریم کورٹ آئین کے آرٹیکل 62 اور 63 کی تشریح کردے گی تو ریٹرننگ افسر کا عدلیہ کی تشریح کی روشنی میں کاغذات نامزدگی کی جانچ پڑتال کا کام آسان ہوجائے گا۔ عدلیہ کا فیصلہ چھلنی کا کام دے گا جس میں اسمبلی کے اُمیدواروں کو چھانا جائے گا اور اس طرح نیک نام دیانتدار افراد پارلیمنٹ میں پہنچ سکیں گے اور جمہوریت کا چہرہ خوبصورت ہوجائے گا۔ عوام کا اعتماد جمہوری نظام پر بحال ہوگا۔ سچ بولنے والے دیانتدار افراد ہی حقیقی جمہوریت قائم کرسکتے ہیں۔ عدلیہ کو صادق اور امین کے ساتھ ساتھ آرٹیکل 62 کی شق ڈی اور ای کی تشریح بھی کرنی پڑے گی جس میں درج ہے ’’وہ شخص بھی نا اہل ہوگا جو اچھے کردار کا حامل نہ ہو۔ عام طور پر احکام اسلام سے انحراف میں مشہور ہو۔ وہ اسلامی تعلیمات کا خاطرخواہ علم نہ رکھتا ہو اور اسلام کے مقررکردہ فرائض کا پابند نیز کبیرہ گناہوں سے مجتنب نہ ہو‘‘۔
نواز شریف نے اپنی پارلیمنٹ میں عددی برتری اور چالاکی و مہارت اور حزب اختلاف کی ناہلی یا خاموش حمایت سے قانون پاس کروا لیا کہ اب نااہل شخص سیاسی پا رٹی کا صدر بن سکتا ہے- اب وہ ایک نااہل شخص جو خود پارلیمنٹ کا ممبر نہیں بن سکتا مگر وہ پارلیمنٹ میں اپنی پارٹی ممبران پر مکمل اختیار رکھتا ہے- یہ قانون ،اسلامی اقدار اور اخلاقیات کا مذاق ہے-

نوازشریف  نے نون لیگ کا صدر بننے کے لیے جو ترمیم پاس کی اس سے دو پیغام واضح ہو گئے کہ اول تو پاکستان میں اللہ کی حاکمیت کا تصور محض آئین کی کتاب تک محدود رہ گیا ہے ورنہ پالیمنٹ میں حاکمیت کا منبع صرف اور صرف ایک طاقتور لیکن نااہل شخص ہے اور دوم انصاف اور قانون کے خلاف اعلانِ جنگ کر کے یہ تاثر دیا کہ آپ بے شک جتنے مرضی بڑے چور ہوں، قاتل ہوں، ڈاکو ہوں، قوم کا مال لوٹنے والے ہوں، پیشہ ور مجرم یا فیملی مافیا ہوں ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔ لیکن اگر آپ کے پاس پارلیمنٹ میں اکثریت ہے تو آپ ناصرف قانون کو بدل کر اپنے آپ کو بچا سکتے ہیں بلکہ آج کے بعد کوئی چور چور نہیں رہے گا، کوئی قاتل قاتل نہیں رہے گا، کوئی پیشہ ور مجرم بدنام نہں ہو گا بلکہ کوئی بھی پیشہ ور مجرم پارلیمنٹ کے منتخب نمائندگان کا سرپرست بن کر اپنے آپ کو قانون و انصاف سے بالا تر کر سکتا ہے۔

آئین کی 63،62دفعات کے خاتمے کارجحان نہایت خطرناک ہے، اس کامطلب تویہ ہوگاکہ اسلام کے جس حکم پربھی ہم عمل کرنا نہ چاہیں یاہمیں اس پرعمل کرنامشکل نظرآئے توہم یہ مطالبہ کریں کہ اس کو سرے سے ختم ہی کردیاجائے۔ نہ رہے بانس نہ بجے بانسری!!

زیربحث دفعات اسلامی احکام پرمبنی ہیں اوراسلام کاکوئی حکم ایسا نہیں ہے کہ انسانوں کے لیے ان پر عمل کر ناممکن نہ ہو۔جس وقت 62،63 دفعات کو دستور کا حصہ بنایا گیا، صورتِ حال یکسر تبدیل ہو چکی تھی، سیاست دان یا غیر سیاسی لوگ سب دولت کی ہوس کا شکار تھے اور کرپشن کی داستانیں عام تھیں، اس کے سدباب کے لئے مذکورہ دفعات نافذ کی گئیں جو فی الواقع اخلاص پر مبنی تھیں، نہ کہ بدنیتی پر۔ اب کرپشن کی صورت حال پہلے سے کہیں زیادہ خراب ہے ، اس لئے یہ دفعات نہایت ضروری ہیں، تاکہ کرپٹ لوگ سیاست میں نہ آ سکیں اور اگر آ جائیں تو ان کا محاسبہ کیا جا سکے۔ اس لئے ان دفعات کی اہمیت، افادیت و ضرورت، بلکہ ناگزیریت مسلم ہے۔‘‘    

سیاسی لیڈروں کے بت اور پوجا:

عوام ناسمجھی اور جہالت کی وجہ سے نا اہل کو سپورٹ کرتے ہیں- پاکستان کے لوگوں نے سیاسی لیڈروں کے بت بنا لیئے ہیں اور ان کی پوجا اس طرح کرتے ہیں کہ وہ نعوز بااللہ خدا ہیں یا پیغمبرکہ وہ کوئی غلط کا م نہیں کرسکتے؟ (استغفر اللہ)-

یہودیوں  اور عیسائیوں نے اپنے علماء اور درویشوں کو یہ درجہ دیا تھا:

اتَّخَذُوا أَحْبَارَهُمْ وَرُهْبَانَهُمْ أَرْبَابًا مِّن دُونِ اللَّـهِ (٩:٣١ التوبہ)

انہوں نے اپنے علماء اور درویشوں کو اللہ کے سوا اپنا رب بنا لیا ہے (٩:٣١ التوبہ)

حضرت عَدِی بن حاتِم، جو پہلے عیسائی تھے، جب نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کے پاس حاضر ہو کر مشرف با اسلام ہوئے تو انہوں منجملہ اور سوالات کے ایک یہ سوال بھی کیا تھا کہ اس آیت میں ہم پر اپنے علماء اور درویشوں کو خد ا بنا لینے  کا جو الزام عائد کیا گیا ہے اس کی اصلیت کیا ہے۔ جواب میں حضور نے فرمایا کہ یہ واقعہ نہیں ہے کہ جو کچھ یہ لوگ حرام قرار دیتے ہیں اسے تم حرام مان لیتے ہو اور جو کچھ یہ حلال قرار دیتے ہیں اسے حلال مان لیتے ہو؟ انہوں نے عرض کیا کہ یہ تو ضرور  ہم کرتے رہے ہیں۔ فرمایا بس یہی  ان کو خد ا بنا لینا ہے[ابن کثیر،حسن ترمزی ، کتاب تفسیر القرآن باب و من سوره التوبہ( ٣.٩٥)، البانی حسن ، ترمزی صحیح]

اس سے معلوم ہوا کہ کتاب اللہ کی سند کے بغیر جو لوگ انسانی زندگی کے لیے جائز و ناجائز کی حدود مقرر کرتے ہیں وہ دراصل خدائی کے مقام پر بزعمِ خود متمکن ہوتے ہیں اور جو ان کے اس حقِ شریعت سازی کو تسلیم کرتے ہیں وہ انہیں خدابناتے ہیں۔

 اگر عوام غلام نہ بنیں اور اپنے پسندیدہ لیڈر کی غلطی پر تنقید کریں تو وہ اپنا رویہ بدلنے پر مجبور ہو گا۔ کرپٹ کا ساتھ دینا اس کے گناہ میں حصہ دار بننا ہے۔ نا اہل کو سیاست میں رکھنا  بلکل غلط ہے اسلام، آئین اور اخلاقیات میں ناجائز ہے۔

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ووٹرز کو نااہل شخص کے انتخاب کا اختیار حاصل':
لاہور ہائی کورٹ کے چیف جسٹس سید منصور علی شاہ کا کہنا ہے کہ ووٹرز کو اختیار ہے کہ وہ انتخابات میں حق رائے دہی کے تحت کسی بھی نااہل اور نادہندہ شخص کو منتخب کر سکتے ہیں۔

پاکستان کا 1973؁ کا آئین اسلامی ہے لیکن اسلامی شقوں کا نفاذ کبھی نہیں کیا گیا بلکہ ان کی مسلسل خلاف ورزی کی جاتی رہی ہے۔ آرٹیکل 2؍ اے کے تحت قرارداد مقاصد کو آئین کا اہم ترین حصہ بنایا گیا ہے۔

آرٹیکل 227؍ میں یقین دہانی کرائی گئی ہے کہ تمام موجودہ قوانین کو قرآن پاک اور سنت کے منضبط اسلامی احکام کے مطابق بنایا جائے گا اور ایسا کوئی قانون وضع نہیں کیا جائے گا جو مذکورہ احکام کے منافی ہو۔

آرٹیکل 62؍ میں سینیٹ اور قومی اسمبلی کے ارکان اور صوبائی اسمبلی کے ارکان کے طور پرمنتخب ہونے کیلئے شرائط بتائی گئی ہیں۔ 62(د) میں بتایا گیا ہے کہ ایسا شخص اچھے کردار کا حامل ہو اور عام طور پر احکام اسلام سے انحراف کیلئے مشہور نہ ہو۔ (ہ) وہ اسلامی تعلقات کا خاطر خواہ علم رکھتا ہو اور اسلام کے مقرر کردہ فرائض کا پابند نیز کبیرہ گناہوں سے مجتنب ہو۔ (و) وہ سمجھدار اور پارسا ہو اور فاسق نہ ہو اور ایماندار اور امین ہو ، کسی اخلاقی پستی میں ملوث ہونے یا جھوٹی گواہی دینے کے جرم میں سزا یافتہ نہ ہو، اس نے قیام پاکستان کے بعد ملک کی سالمیت کے خلاف کام نہ کیا ہو یا نظریہ پاکستان کی مخالفت نہ کی ہو۔

اسمبلی، گورنر صاحبان، وزرائے اعلیٰ صاحبان اور صوبائی ارکان کابینہ بشمول غیر مسلم پر لازم ہے کہ وہ حلف اٹھائیں کہ وہ اسلامی نظریات کے تحفظ کیلئے کام کریں گے جو پاکستان کے قیام کی بنیاد ہے۔ اس میں یہ بھی وعدہ پیش کیا گیا ہے کہ اسلامی اتحاد کے فروغ کیلئے مسلم دنیا کے ساتھ تعلقات کو مضبوط بنایا جائے گا۔ آئین میں یہ بھی وعدہ کیا گیا ہے کہ اقلیتوں کیلئے مناسب قانون سازی کی جائے گی تاکہ وہ اپنے مذاہب پر عمل کرسکیں اور اپنی ثقافت کے مطابق زندگی بسر کرسکیں۔

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Guilty until proven innocent - Panama Leaks & PM Nawaz Sharif

Instead of taking the high road, using the opportunity to deal pragmatically with the "Panama Leaks" explaining how and why his family's offshore companies and accounts thereof had come into existence, PM Mian Nawaz Sharif (MNS) seriously disappointed the nation by choosing to go the "fog of politics" route. Instead of exercising good sense he spent the better part of his April 22 televised speech alternatively feigning innocence and being belligerent about what is an international expose and not a home-grown conspiracy as he and his aides insist on implying. By clear inference, if not by name, he targeted Imran Khan, the Army and the Judiciary in that order. Going after Shaukat Khanum Hospital, which is doing a magnificent work in bringing cancer treatment within the reach of the common man, was in bad taste. Some of MNS' aides don't have either good taste or good manners but MNS himself is a decent human being and so are a fair number of his aides, why are they being vociferously "more loyal than the king"?

The normal principles of justice requires concrete evidence before someone can judge anyone guilty but for someone who is the holder of the highest executive public office, the onus for proving his innocence lies with him in the same manner as for Britain's PM David Cameron, MNS's continued inability to explain the expensive flats in London and the money trail leading to them is damning. As would be expected from the executive head of a government, Cameron swiftly laid everything before Parliament to weather the storm, the Musharraf-created extenuating circumstances post-1999 one can understand, the offshore companies and accounts funded pre-1999 remains unexplained. The phenomenal increase in MNS's net worth over the last three years after declaring meager tax returns for years is also inexplicable.

The Terms of Reference (ToRs) in the letter MNS wrote to the Chief Justice (CJ) Supreme Court (SC) studiously avoided mentioning the raison d'etre, the Panama Leaks. The silence in the ToRs is deafening. MNS asked for investigating every conceivable financial corruption under the sun since 1947, including non-performing loans (NPLs), such an inquiry should take about 50 years, give or take a few years.

Prima facie the evidence about wrongdoing is sufficient for NAB or FIA to take suo motu action, both have the expertise to legally carry out requisite investigation. With the government in power wielding enormous influence on FIA, and even NAB to an extent, investigators will hit a brick wall every step of the way, and if not, a brick wall will hit them. The "Client-Patron" nature of the relationship makes it difficult even in truly democratic jurisdictions like the US, UK, EU, etc, for the State machinery to incriminate those in power to whom they owe "allegiance", facts will be deliberately distorted and/or denied. In writing the letter to the Supreme Court, MNS has inadvertently accepted the controversy is surrounding his public office as PM; can he legally exercise the PM's executive powers till he should be cleared? Impending government paralysis notwithstanding, a more credible approach is to temporarily step aside for a neutral caretaker regime comprising of non-party technocrats at both the Federal and Provincial levels in place for the duration of the enquiry.

MNS has been down the route before, the precedent for overcoming the Constitutional hiatus legally exists in the form of General Waheed Kakar's formula. Serious differences in 1993 between MNS and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan led to open political and administrative confrontation and possibly a civil war between the Federal government and Punjab. Refusing to declare Martial Law, the "Kakar Model" of a strictly neutral stance persuaded both to resign from office. A caretaker government was appointed and the National and Provincial Assemblies dissolved. This time around there is no need to dissolve the Assemblies, they could be held in abeyance until a proper inquiry is completed under the aegis of the caretaker regime. MNS' televised address came after General Raheel Sharif symbolically made good on his promise of a few days earlier when he called for uprooting corruption and "across the board accountability" by sending home 13 high-ranking serving military officers, among them one Lieutenant General, one Major General, five Brigadiers, three Colonels and a Major on corruption charges. Some more sackings are expected.

Replicating Pakistan's "Kakar Model" in 2007, both the Bangladesh President and PM stepped aside and a CT government was installed to stymie the chaos that preceded 11th January 2007. A new Election Commission (EC) was also put in place. Not one military person joined the government or bureaucracy. Concrete steps were taken to purge Bangladesh of the corrupt, the 'untouchables' included ministers, lawmakers, party leaders, civil servants and businessmen, etc. As time went on, temptation set in, a handful in the senior military hierarchy of the Bangladesh Army (including disappointingly the CoAS, General Moeen Ahmed, someone for whom I developed a lot of respect during my conversations with him pre-2007, who let his brothers run riot (shades of Kayani)), got labelled with corruption themselves. This destroyed the credibility of the temporary "doctrine of necessity" exercise. To their credit, the caretaker government itself remained clean and the EC did a superb job, arranging free and fair elections on the strength of major electoral reforms which ensured that corrupt candidates could not take part in the elections.

The Sharif rubberstamp President can be manipulated at will and must also temporarily go "on leave", so must the Senate President being a dedicated party man blind to Zardari's corruption. The serving CJ can take oath as Acting President and nominate a retired judge to head the caretaker regime. All political appointees in government/semi-government posts must also go on temporary leave. The caretaker regime must carry out an impartial investigation into the allegations about the Sharif family, the forensic audit focusing on the world's major offshore financial centres, mainly British dependencies and territories. With a timeline to conduct the investigations, the Commission can call on foreign experts, forensic auditors/accountants, foreign lawyers, bankers, etc for help. MNS and others can come back to power if their enquiries find no wrongdoings.

Asma Jahangir contends that "accountability at the cost of democracy is unacceptable", that should translate into something close to Zardari's heart, "unfettered corruption being the cost of democracy is acceptable". Facing revelations of money-laundering that have not as yet been credibly explained, MNS is "prima facie" guilty until proven innocent. He must do the right thing while he can, tomorrow might be too late.
By Ikram Sehgal, defence and security analyst

http://www.brecorder.com/articles-a-letters/187:articles/41688:guilty-until-proven-innocent?date=2016-04-29

The Road to Raiwind via Park Lane London- Panama Leaks

In his speech to the nation on Sunday evening, Imran Khan seems to have hit all the right notes. It was a well scripted speech in which sensible demands were made. We need to know how the money was made by the prime minister’s family. Possibly, an inquiry through a Supreme Court judge would be the way to move ahead.

The government is in denial mode. One was amazed to see how quickly our PM reacted to the Panama Leaks, not even waiting one day to come on national television to address the nation to defend his family’s assets abroad. This is the same PM who dilly-dallied on other more important issues.

‘Will march towards Raiwind if Panama Papers revelations not probed independently’

While the PM of Iceland has resigned and the British PM seems to be tottering, our PM seems to think he has done nothing wrong. And the manner in which he and his close aides are defending the first family begs more questions than gives answers.

One was disappointed by the statements of Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid and the accusations that he made against Imran Khan and the Shaukat Khanum Hospital. Rashid has always been a sensible and mature person. Using the tactic of offense is the best defence, his press conference leaves one somewhat disgusted.

The response of the Sharif government on the whole has been disappointing. Instead of clearing its name, it has instead attacked Imran Khan, the only prominent politician who took the government to task. One need not be a supporter of the PTI to understand that the PTI and the hospital are two different things.

The accusation that Shaukat Khanum Hospital’s name was used to launder money is laughable. But if that has happened, let us launder some more. After all, the poor people of Pakistan have benefitted from this hospital the most.

Keeping aside Imran Khan’s politics, his hospital is a beacon of hope in a sea of helplessness. The hospital is run on professional lines and has helped thousands of people who would otherwise not receive any help through our government hospitals or those funded by other trusts and foundations. Imran Khan’s politics may have affected funding of the Shaukat Khanum Hospital but it continues to serve the people without distinction.

What is sad about the Panama Leaks in Pakistan is that our main opposition political party cannot take a stand against the ruling party. That is because their leaders are also named in the scam. We can call this the bankruptcy of our political system where the representatives of the people cannot hold each other accountable as they are all tainted by the same brush. Who then do we turn to? The answer is very much there.

The demand to bring in experts who investigate white collar crime is a good one. But we all know it won’t happen. We have seen in the past how international or impartial investigators have always been hindered when it comes to investigating wrongdoing in Pakistan. Who can forget the Scotland Yard team that came to investigate the murder of former PM Benazir Bhutto. The team was not given access to important records or information.

So what will happen next? We look forward to the end of the month when Imran Khan promises to surround the Nawaz mansion in Rawind. This is the same place where the Indian prime minister visited on his pit stop trip to Pakistan. We need to know more about this palace as well. How much of our public money goes into maintaining this? How was it built? Lahore journalists have all the answers. Maybe it is time for another round of leaks.

In all this, another issue that came to the forefront was how apart from the ruling party, our publicly funded Pakistan Television, cannot be used by anyone else to express their views. PTV is a funded through our electricity bills. Even those who don’t have a television are paying for the government’s propaganda. Why can others not be brought on air? Incidently, we got this brilliant idea from Turkey and was introduced in the time of our debonair PM, Shaukat Aziz. However, now we need to make PTV a public television. It is time for some introspection by the ruling party. We cannot continue denying.
By Kamal Siddiqi, Published in The Express Tribune, April 11th,  2016.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1082223/the-road-to-rawind/

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Sharif Family corruption

1. 1. CORRUPTION CASES

Nawaz Sharif and his cronies have always been working to plunder Pakistan’s wealth as their sole agenda. He expanded his business empire by misusing his authority as Chief Minister Punjab and Prime Minister Pakistan. And in order to gain financial benefits, he manipulated laws and changed policies. Likewise, in a bid to avoid accountability, the Nawaz Sharif Government amended “The Ehtasaab Act” and made it effective from “1990” instead of “1985” as proposed in the original text of the “Ehtasaab Act” prepared by the interim government of caretaker Prime Minister (Late) Mairaj Khalid (1996-97). And by bringing this change he cunningly saved his tenure of Chief Minister Punjab (1985-88) from accountability.

Despite all maneuvering following references were filed against the Sharifs:-

Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and others misused official resources causing a loss to the national exchequer of Rs 620million by developing 1800 acres of land in Raiwind at state expense.
Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif are accused of whitening black money during their first tenure (1990-93) and causing a loss of Rs 180 million to the national exchequer by evading income/wealth tax.
Nawaz Sharif, Saif-ur-Rehman and others reduced import duty from 325% to 125% on import of luxury cars (BMW), causing a huge loss of Rs1.98 billion to the national exchequer.
On the imposition of emergency and freezing of foreign currency accounts, Nawaz Sharif and Saif-ur-Rehman removed 11 billion US dollars from Pakistani Banks illegally. Without the consent of account holders, Foreign Exchange Bearer Certificates (FEBC) accounts were frozen and foreign exchange was misappropriated.
Illegal appointments in Pakistan International Airlines (Nawaz Sharif and Saeed Mehdi).
Abbotabad land purchase scam (Nawaz Sharif and Sardar Mehtab Abbasi).
Availing bank loan for Ittefaq Foundries and Brothers Steel Mills without fulfilling legal requirements (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
Concealment of property in the US (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
Illegal appointments and promotions in Federal Investigation Agency (Nawaz Sharif).
US wheat purchase scam (Nawaz Sharif and Syeda Abida Hussain).
Murree land purchase scam (Nawaz Sharif and Saif-ur-Rehman)
Tax evasion (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
Forging of passports and money laundering (Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar).
Concealment of private helicopter purchase while filing assets’ detail (Nawaz Sharif).
Favoring Kohinoor Energy Co, causing loss of Rs. 450 millions (Nawaz Sharif and Others).
Illegal cash finance facility given to Brothers Sugar Mills (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
Bribe offered to ANP’s Senator Qazi Mohammad Anwer (Nawaz Sharif and Others).
Hudaibiya Paper Mills Reference against Sharif brothers and Ishaq Dar.
Illegally appointing Chairman Central Board of Revenue (Nawaz Sharif)
Whitening of black money by amending laws (Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif).
Causing Rs. 35 billion loss by writing off/rescheduling bank loans (Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar).
Bribing (late) Maulana Sattar Niazi from National Exchequer (Nawaz Sharif and Others).
Plundering Rs. 200 million from Jahez and Baitul Maal funds (Nawaz Sharif & Others)
Opening fictitious foreign currency accounts (Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar).
Making 130 political appointments in federal departments (Nawaz Sharif).
Relaxing export duty and rebate to transport sugar to India (Nawaz Sharif).
Whitening of money through FEBC (Nawaz Sharif).
Wealth Tax evasion (Nawaz Sharif).
Concealment of facts to evade property tax (Nawaz Sharif).
Withdrawal of case against Senator Islamuddin Sheikh (Nawaz Sharif, & Ishaq Dar).

2. FINANCIAL GAINS BY USING HIS AUTHORITY AS PRIME MINISTER

The first tenure of Nawaz Sharif as Prime Minister in the year 1990 saw another reign of loot and plunder. During this period Mian Nawaz Shairf obtained loans amounting to more than Rs.614 billion from Banks through his influence against inadequate guarantees. According to the details of loans obtained by Sharifs include Rs.1556 million for Ittefaq Foundries, Rs. 543 million for Haseeb Waqas Sugar Mills, Rs.455 million for Mehran Ramzan Textile Mills, Rs.373 million for Ramzan Bukhsh Textile Mills, Rs.339 millions for Ch. Sugar Mills, Rs.226 millions for Ittefaq brothers, Rs. 205 million for Sandalbar Textile Mills, Rs.182 million for Hudaibiya Engineering Mills, Rs.153 million for Hamza Board Mills Ltd, Rs.134 million for Hudaibiya paper Mills, Rs.351 Million for Brothers Sugar Mills, Rs.174 million for Brothers Textile Mills, Rs.159 million for Brothers Steel Mills, Rs.623 million for Ramzan Sugar Mills, Rs. 191 million Khalid Siraj Textiles, Rs.313 million for Ittefaq Sugar Mills, Rs.164 million for Ittefaq Textile Mills, and Rs.239 million were obtained for Ittefaq Brothers. Due to the malpractice the national wealth was used for establishing personal empire while the country’s economy was facing disaster. This loan was equivalent to the total internal loan obtained by the government of Pakistan! These so called patriotic politicians ruthlessly plundered the national exchequer and used national wealth for personal financial gains. In addition money laundering worth billions of dollars through illegal means, wheat import scam, awarding motorway’s contract to an internationally black listed company, receiving heavy loans despite of being defaulter, secret businesses in UK (Evidence attached), Sugar mills in Kenya and four flats in the most expensive area of London and huge commissions in privatization of Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB) are also a few “achievements” of Nawaz Sharif and family.

3. THE AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT

The Auditor General Report released in the year 1988-89 reported that Nawaz Sharif, misusing his authority as Chief Minister Punjab, issued directives which resulted into direct malpractice of Rs. 35 billion.
The report said that the Chief Minister Secretariat had been turned into a hub of corrupt practices and Nawaz Sharif used public money like an emperor that resulted into huge fiscal deficit of the province.
The Auditor General Report released in the year 1986-87 said that the then Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif had used Rs. 1200 million for malpractices in only one year.
Nawaz Sharif allotted 3000 precious Lahore Development Authority (LDA) plots among his favourites due to which the province suffered loss of billions of rupees.
Nawaz Sharif was the lead character of the Cooperative and Financial Institutions Scam, which deprived the retired employees, orphans, widows, and poor of their total assets amounting to Rs. 17 billion.
Nawaz Sharif released Rs. 1200 million from his discretionary grant in the year 1985-86 while Rs. 1895 million were released in 1986-87, Rs. 1899 million were used in 1987-88 while another Rs. 1887 million were distributed among his cronies.

4. RELATIONS WITH THE TERRORISTS

Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and other party leaders practically share and proudly identify commonalities between PML-N and Taliban and they have very close ties and cordial relations with terrorists and banned terrorist outfits. In early 90s Nawaz Sharif received huge sums of money from Osama Bin Laden to overthrow former Prime Minister of Pakistan Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s Government. Even now PML-N’s cabinet members and spokespersons are commonly seen hanging around with members of those banned outfits, reportedly involved in managing terrorist attacks on thousands of innocent Pakistanis including soldiers, police officials and members of other law enforcement agencies.
Due to compromising attitude of PML-N’s leadership and their mild will to fight against the menace of terrorism the members of law enforcement agencies are completely demoralized. That is one of the reasons that the investigations against terrorists are not carried out in a proper manner and proof against arrested terrorists usually is not available. Due to the incapability of the Punjab Government terrible terrorist attacks took place in the province including suicide attack on Police Training School Bedian Road, blast in Moon Market Lahore, car bomb blast in the Rescue 15 building, car bomb blast in F.I.A building, suicide attack on Munawan Police Training Center, Model Town link road bomb blast, suicide attack on Jamia Naemia, terrorist attack on Ahmedi’s worship places, blasts in Imam Bargahs including Karbla Gammay Shah and suicide bomb blasts in the sacred shrine of Hazrat Data Gunj Buksh along with many others. After these attacks PML-N has morally lost its right of government in Punjab.
Further, it was Shahbaz Sharif, who instead of showing courage and political and moral will to fight against the enemies of Pakistan, in his speech in Jamia Naemia Lahore, begged for mercy from the terrorists. He, in a very disgraceful manner, requested them not to attack Punjab as they are likeminded and standing on the same side. This statement of Shahbaz Sharif reflects his mindset !

5. CONSPIRACIES AGAINST DEMOCRACY

Nawaz Sharif and Co. has always been involved in destabilizing the democratic system by one way or the other and did not even hesitate to take bribes to grab power. Lt. General (R) Naseerullah Babar, the former Interior Minister had disclosed in the National Assembly in 1994, that the ISI had disbursed money to purchase the loyalty of various right wing politicians, including that of Nawaz Sharif, in order to manipulate the 1990 elections, for the Islamic Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI- Pakistan democratic alliance), and bring about the defeat of the PPP. As proof Lt. General (R) Naseerullah Babar, Lt. General (R) Asad Durrani and others have filed affidavits supported by copies of various documents. In Air Marshal Asghar Khan’s human rights petition (HRC 19/96) in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the former Chief of Army Staff Mirza Aslam Baig and the former Chief of the ISI and a banker concerning the criminal distribution of the people’s money for political purposes. The case is pending adjudication in the Supreme Court of Pakistan for the last 14 years.
1. 6. DECEIT AND LYING

Nawaz Sharif’s politics is based on the philosophy “lie repeatedly till it seems as the truth”. He has based his politics on deceit and lies. Nawaz Sharif and his “chellaz” believe in lying repeatedly and religiously follow their convictions in this regard. They are masters in the art of manipulation and alteration and use their wealth to achieve their goals. One example is enough to expose their hideous character. After conviction in the hijacking case, Nawaz Sharif and his family approached foreign friends who persuaded President Pervez Musharraf to have mercy and forgive them. Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and family sought pardon and signed agreements including a commitment not to participate in politics for a period of ten years but they kept lying and hid the existence of these agreements from the nation until the head of Saudi Arabian Secret Agency, Prince Miqran Bin Abdul Aziz and Prime Minister of Lebanon Mr. Saad Hariri’s unveiled the existence of these agreements and Ch. Nisar had to admit the existence of these agreements during the press conference of Javed Hashmi. Sharif brothers in return of Pervez Musharraf’s “Ehsaan” (generosity) have not only crossed all limits of hostility but also lied to the nation. Would Nawaz Sharif and his “chellaz” ever tender apology to the Pakistani Nation, for lying to them for so many years?

7. POLICE STATE

Under the horrible times of Shahbaz Sharif’s Government the Punjab province has been virtually converted in to a “Badmaash” (rogue) province. Here police officials get involved in heinous and brutal criminal activities like one in Sialkot. The administration did not take any action against the shameful and atrocious lynching of two young brothers until the footage was telecast on electronic channels. It is believed that only in Gujranwala Division, where a brother of PML (N) MNA was deputed as head of police department, more than two hundred extra judicial killings have taken place. The record shows that in Punjab, police force has been continuously used to harass and insult political rivals. An endless campaign of lodging false FIRs against political opponents has also been initiated. Use of brutal police force and baton-charge has become a routine. Every segment of society including journalists, doctors, teachers, students, nurses, Government employees, semi Government and private institutions and lawyers have faced the brutality of police while protesting for their demands.

8. POOR GOVERNANCE & MALADMINISTRATION

It is a hard fact that poor governance & maladministration is trade mark of Sharif brothers. Shahbaz Sharif is an attention-seeker and likes to show off. For the sake of “cheap publicity” he has started calling himself “Khadam-e-Ala” but miserably failed to meet the challenges of governance and administration. It’s a harsh reality that during his tenure in Punjab all institutions deteriorated conspicuously. In order to achieve their motives, Sharifs always appoint their blue eyed personnel on key posts by completely ignoring merit. Almost all districts of Punjab are being run by grade 19 officers who are incapable hence a basic reason for poor governance. Due to his dictatorial approach Shahbaz Sharif himself heads 12 provincial ministries and he seldom holds cabinet meeting. He takes decisions over ruling, the cabinet. His obstinate behavior is the prime reason for the maladministration in the province. It would be just and appropriate to suggest that Sharifs have failed to establish a democratic spirit in their government and have completely overlooked the norms of democratic political setups.

9. CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN

In order to consolidate and attain more power, ‘the champion of democracy and independent judiciary’, Nawaz Sharif attacked every individual and institution, he felt could get in the way and challenge his authority. In order to get rid of Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, who Nawaz Sharif despised, the latter created divisions amongst the judges using the humble services of a former judge, Rafique Tarrar (later President of Pakistan) to make life difficult for the Chief Justice. A group of judges refused to acknowledge CJ Sajjad Ali Shah as the Chief Justice and things got so bad that a number of junior judges made it difficult for him to carry out his duties. Eventually, Sharif ordered his thugs to attack the Supreme Court in order to prevent the Chief Justice from giving a ruling against him.
The police did nothing to stop Sharif’s thugs as they attacked and entered the Supreme Court premises. The judges inside the building barely managed to escape. The thugs, led by Sajjad Naseem and Mushtaq Tahir Kheli, Nawaz Sharif’s political secretaries, entered the court chanting anti-CJ Sajjad slogans and destroyed the Court Room.
1. 10. CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE PRESS AND JOURNALISTS

A number of incidents during 1998-99 indicated a pattern of harassment and intimidation of individual journalists as the government was increasingly becoming intolerant. Imtiaz Alam, a Lahore-based journalist, complains of threats over the telephone and then of his car being set on fire in a mysterious manner the next day. Another Lahore journalist, Mahmud Lodhi, was picked up and held in illegal custody for two days. He was questioned about his involvement with a BBC team filming a documentary on the rise and wealth of the Sharif family. Present Pakistani ambassador in USA Mr. Hussain Haqqani was picked up in a cloak-and-dagger fashion and interrogated at a FIA Center for money embezzlement while he held government office.
The residence of Idrees Bakhtiar, a senior staff reporter of monthly Herald and BBC correspondent in Karachi was raided by CIA police on Nov. 26, 1998. The police harassed the family and also arrested his 28-year old son, Moonis, who was later released. On Feb. 13, 1999, three persons, including Senator Abdul Hayee Baloch and a lady worker from Lahore, were injured when the police baton-charged, used water cannons and threw bricks on a peaceful procession of the Pakistan Awami Ittehad in front of the parliament house in Islamabad. The march, organized by the PAI for the freedom of the press, was led by PAI president Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan (late), the then opposition leader Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and secretary general of the alliance Hamid Nasir Chatta, besides a number of sitting and former PPP MNAs and senators.
The owner of the Frontier Post, Rehmat Shah Afridi, was arrested in Lahore on April 2, 1999, by the Anti-narcotics Force. The Peshawar-based Frontier Post was critical of government policies. Afridi’s arrest was seen by journalists and others as another attempt to gag the Press. On May 8, 1999, Najam Sethi, Editor of The Friday Times, was arrested on the orders of Nawaz Sharif. Police stormed into his house in Lahore and dragged him out of his bed room. After brutal torture and breaking furniture of the house he was shifted to some unknown place. And before leaving the house with Mr. Sethi, they tied his wife Jugnoo’s hands with a rope and locked her up in a dressing room. Later, Nawaz Sharif asked COAS Gen. Musharraf to charge Mr. Sethi under the Pakistan Army Act for being a traitor and give him maximum punishment (maximum punishment is death!).
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a press freedom organization, said on June 1, 1999 that it was conducting an investigation into a “hit list” prepared by the Pakistan government that contains 35 prominent journalists of Pakistan. According to reports received by the CPJ, the federal government had decided to establish a special media cell comprising officials from the police, Intelligence Bureau and the Federal Investigation Agency to punish the journalists, who had been writing against the government. Ehtesab Bureau Chairman, Senator Saifur Rehman Khan was to head this cell which would function from Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi and Peshawar with its head office in Islamabad.
According to the CPJ, the journalists were: Irshad Ahmed Haqqani (late), Rehmat Ali Razi, Anjum Rasheed, (writer and anchor person) Suhail Warraich, Sohaib Marghoob and (late) Roman Ehsan (Jang Lahore), M. Ziauddin (Dawn Islamabad), Dr. Maleeha Lodhi, Javed Jaidi, Nusrat Javeed, Mariana Babar and Ansaar Abbassi (The News, Islamabad), Rehana Hakeem and Zahid Hussain (Newsline), Ejaz Haider, Khalid Ahmed, Jugnu Mohsin and Adnan Adil (The Friday Times, Lahore), Mahmood Sham (Jang, Karachi), Rashed Rehman (The Nation, Lahore), Amir Ahmed Khan (Herald, Karachi), Imtiaz Aalam, Beena Sarwar, Shafiq Awan, Kamila Hyat and Amir Mir (The News Lahore), Abbas Athar (Nawa-e-Waqt, Lahore), Kamran Khan and Shehzad Amjad (The News Karachi), Azam Khalil (Pulse), Mohammad Malik (Tribune), Imtiaz Ahmed (The Frontier Post, Peshawar), Ilyas Chaudhry (Jang Rawalpindi), Naveed Meraj (The Frontier Post, Islamabad) and Syed Talat Hussain (The Nation, Islamabad).
The Government of Nawaz Sharif started a campaign against the Jang group in July 1998 when it refused to sack a number of journalists critical of Government policies. The government objected to the Jang group newspapers’ reporting about the law and order situation in the country and put a ban on advertisement. On August 13, a report was published about non-payment of Rs. 700 million to farmers by the sugar mills owned by the Nawaz Sharif family. Three days later, the government sent notices to Jang for non payment of taxes and the case was shifted to the Ehtesab cell. On September 27, 1998, the Government asked the Jang group not to publish a report of ‘The Observer London’ that Nawaz Sharif had siphoned off millions of rupees. The report was not published by the Jang but it was published by its sister English newspaper The News. On November 5, bank accounts of the Jang group were frozen and FIA raided the Jang and the News offices in Rawalpindi and customs authorities stopped delivery of newsprint to the Jang.
On Jan 28 1999, a sedition case was registered against Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman for publishing an advertisement of Muttahida’s Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation on January 1, which according to the police, was aimed at inciting people against the state.
Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman revealed that Senator Saif-ur-Rehman asked him to sack a number of Jang employees who should be replaced in consultation with the Government. He released to the press audio-tapes of conversation with Saif-ur-Rehman on this issue. Saif-ur-Rehman accused Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman for evading tax and customs duty to the tune of Rs. 2.6 billion.
The hostility of Sharifs towards media is also evident from the fact that in the parliamentary history of Pakistan for the first time a resolution, condemning the media, was tabled (by a group of MPAs belonging to Nawaz League) and passed in the Punjab Assembly.
1. 11. DESTABILIZATION OF INSTITUTIONS

There is probably no institution in Pakistan which Nawaz Sharif did not aggressively confront in order to make them comply with his wishes. Besides picking a fight with the President, the Judiciary and the restricted/limited media of that time, Sharif also decided to have a confrontation with the army, the only viable institution left in Pakistan. Due to his hostile and dumb approach in Nawaz Sharif’s first term as prime minister, he fell out with three successive army chiefs: General Mirza Aslam Beg, General Asif Nawaz and General Abdul Waheed Kakar. During his second tenure, he fell out with two other Generals, General Karamat and later with General Pervez Musharraf. General Karamat became the first Chief of Army Staff in the history of Pakistan to have been prematurely retired!
One by one all challenges and potential obstacles to his dictatorial mindset were removed from his way by Nawaz Sharif. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Farooq Leghari, Sajjad Ali Shah, and General Jehangir Karamat were all removed from the scene by Nawaz Sharif.
1. 12. Ill-CONSIDERED ECONOMIC DECISIONS

Nawaz Sharif’s ill-considered economic decisions cost Pakistan dearly! But the Sharif family’s personal business empire grew exponentially through questionable means.
Nawaz Sharif, during his tenure as Chief Minister Punjab from 1988-90, deprived the provincial departments of Rs. 15.35 billion. In addition in 1997-99 he caused huge loss amounting in 11 billion US dollars to private account holders by freezing foreign currency accounts contrary to the law and constitution wherein he and his cronies managed to get away with huge sums even after the freeze. Billions of dollars were removed from the banks without the permission/consent of the account holders but the accounts of common Pakistanis were withheld.
In last two and half years, Shahbaz Sharif wasted more than 40 billion rupees in “Sasti Roti” and other subsidized food schemes that had been initiated to earn cheap popularity and to benefit their political supporters. Admittedly these funds have been distributed amongst their own supporters without any audit just to gain political mileage. A huge chunk of these funds has been disbursed by the ghost “Tandurs” (burners) owners. Inflation and un-employment is rocketing day by day due to the ill-conceived decisions of the provincial government. This is one of the reasons that Punjab could not help flood victims at the time because they had utilized their funds in senseless politically motivated schemes and now have an overdraft amounting Rs. 80 billion.

13. SELLING KASHMIR CAUSE TO VAJPAYEE IN 1999 AND HUMILATING ARMED FORCES IN USA, DURING KARGIL

The so called son of soil Nawaz Sharif virtually sold Kashmir in 1999 during Indian PM’s visit to Lahore. Nawaz Sharif deleted the word Kashmir from the joint declaration to please Indian counterpart. By crossing all the limits of treachery and falsehood Nawaz Sharif and his cronies claim that Pakistan armed forces lost the Kargil war. In fact, due to the decisions of Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan lost this war in the drawing room of the American President after wining it in the battlefield.
1. 14. ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS
It is a proven fact that in 1998 Nawaz Sharif was double-minded about the atomic explosions. While the nation waited breathlessly for a befitting reply to India, Nawaz Sharif was busy in negotiating economic packages with US Government. Gohar Ayub Khan, who was foreign minister at that time, has also corroborated this fact in his book.

After all this I don't understand why people are so blind & stupid.

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Panama Papers Problem

The Panama tax haven leaks reveal a lot about the lawlessness of the rich, as well as the ideological bias of the western press. “Vladimir Putin’s name appears nowhere, but the corporate media used his image repeatedly to drum up interest in what is an otherwise newsworthy story.” Americans are conspicuous by their absence from the story. That’s because rich people in the U.S. can avoid taxes “legally in Wyoming, Delaware or Nevada.”

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The worst criminals on earth are not the poor who sit behind bars in jails and 

prisons. The biggest thieves are found among the rich. The 1% can buy legislation, politicians and the media to carry out and hide their dirty work. If they can’t change the laws to benefit themselves in their homelands they simply send their money elsewhere through shell holding companies. This transfer of wealth, much of it diverted from what ought to be tax payments, is an open secret. Panama, the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Luxembourg and Switzerland are known for securing the money and secrets of the rich and the well connected.

The leak of 11.5 million documents from the Panama based Mossack Fonseca law firm brings into the light of day what was long known but passively accepted. Now the facts are in the open but the way in which the revelations are reported is questionable and taints an important story.

The documents now known as the Panama Papers were leaked to the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) who then shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). ICIJ is a non-profit but with its own problematic origins. It is funded in part by the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Kellogg Foundation and the Rockefeller Family Fund. ICIJ then worked with journalists around the world including from the Guardian and the McClatchy newspaper chain. They in turn will decide what will be kept secret and what will be shared with the public. The goal of revealing secrets instead turns into a plan to keep more secrets and to tarnish certain reputations based on bias and mysterious criteria.

The Panama Papers show that the heads of state of Ukraine, Iceland, Argentina, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates all held shell holding company accounts in different tax haven locations. Vladimir Putin’s name appears nowhere but the corporate media used his image repeatedly to drum up interest in what is an otherwise newsworthy story. There are Russians who have used Mossack Fonseca services and three of them have close ties to Putin. Guilt by association and innuendo follow instead of disinterested reporting of pertinent facts.

While the corporate media happily do the work of imperialism, Russia is making good on its promise to kick ISIS out of Syria. The liberation of the ancient Syrian city Palmyra should have garnered Putin as much press attention as the Panama story. But the United States and NATO have still not abandoned their goal of regime change in Syria. They were ready to let ISIS fight Assad and do the job for them. While they pretend to drive ISIS out of Syria the Russians are actually getting the job done. If the corporate media want to cover Putin, that development provides an excellent opportunity for them to do so.

While news outlets ranging from the Guardian to the New York Times do their best to connect Putin to the Mossack Fonseca scandal without evidence, the prime minister of the United Kingdom and the president of Ukraine are directly involved. David Cameron’s late father is among those mentioned in the Mossack Fonseca trove. Simply put, he established an offshore account to hide the family fortune. The goal of the scheme was as simple as it is devious: keep Cameron family money and the prime minister’s inheritance from being taxed.

The president of Ukraine is yet another thief. When Petro Poroshenko came to office after the 2014 anti-Russian coup he promised to cease playing any role in the operations of his confection company. That business made him a wealthy man with an estimated $800 million personal fortune. Instead he opened an offshore account in the British Virgin Islands to avoid paying taxes.

The media already knew that Poroshenko is richer than many of the Russian oligarchs they obsessively cover and they know that Ukraine is a failed state. They know that Ukraine owes Russia $3 billion and they know that the IMF violated its own rules in not making them pay up.

It is a good thing that the corruption of the world’s elites has been revealed. But as Wikileaks points out, all the documents must be released so that there is transparency available to all and an adherence to journalistic standards.

Hopefully, the proof of worldwide corruption will spur protest and opposition to a system which gives the masses nothing except more inequality. The people of Iceland didn’t wait to be told what to do. Thousands took to the streets and forced their prime minister to resign within three days of the story being published.

It is interesting but not at all mysterious that there are no Americans named in the Mossack Fonseca documents. The reason is simple. U.S. law so clearly favors the rich that they have no need to go offshore to form shell corporations. They can do so legally in Wyoming, Delaware or Nevada. Rich people everywhere know it too. No need to go to Panama or Switzerland. The U.S. is now the best tax haven on the planet. Hopefully the corporate media will decide to cover that story too.

By MARGARET KIMBERLEY

Margaret Kimberley writes the Freedom Rider column for Black Agenda Report, where this essay originally appeared. 

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/06/the-panama-papers-problem/

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