Few Example of Glorious Conduct of our Leaders..
Benazir Bhutto and her husband were convicted, in 2003, by a Geneva magistrate Daniel Devaud of money laundering. In his judgment, he found she and her close associates received around $15m in kickbacks from Pakistani government contracts with SGS and Cotecna, two Swiss companies. Mr Devaud sentenced Ms Bhutto and her husband Asif Zardari to 180 days in prison, ordering them to return $11.9m to the government of Pakistan. The case is under appeal and PPP lawyers maintain that the case is a result of a political vendetta by the government.
PPP does have a broad support base and a continuing romance with the masses (thanks to the sacrifice of its founder) but it is not the PPP, Z.A. Bhutto founded. Rehman Malik is acting as BB’s principal adviser. As a junior officer, Rehman’s career got a boost when he took care of the household needs of Begum Zia-ul-Haq. It seems like a greek tragedy compared to the days when Bhutto had gathered some of the most honest politicians and distinguished lawyers in the country to launch his party.
Nawaz Sharif despite his recent stand on democracy [never mind that he was an ISI protege and made billions using his friendship with Zia and General Gilani) he tried to become a complete dictator (as amir-ul-momneen) when he was Prime Minister but ran away at the first opportunity when offered clemency through that American agent, Saad Harriri and took refuge in a Saudi Arabian palace. Nawaz Sharif has been involved in numerous scandals including BMW, foreign exchange, using unde influence to borrow money, etc. He gave up Rs.300 million in cash and millions more in property to get the pardon. Most recently, DAWN carried a story [August 30, 2007] that though sources close to Sharif deny the fact, there have been strong rumours that Sharif’s decision to ‘sell the land allotted by none less than King Abdullah for setting up a steel plant near Makkah may not have gone down too well with the royal family. Sharifs have sold the land at a high price to a major local business group which incidentally also bid for Pakistan steel mills… sources in the group maintain that they had paid a sum of 75 million Saudi riyals to the Sharifs as the price for the prime land that the Sharifs had reportedly only paid 5 million riyals to the Saudi government as token price for the land.’
Maulana Fazlur Rehman conspired to get the 17th amendment and now helped Musharraf by delaying the dissolution of the NWFP assembly. He was Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee during Benazir’s government and used to grovel before BB for securing diesel’s distribution rights, according to the civil servants who were eyewitnesses to the spectacles. A master of deceit, he is the darling of the establishment.
Qazi Hussain Ahmed is the leader of Jamaat Islami, a party that has done the most to damage democracy by collaborating with General Yahya and General Zia. He is angry only because Musharraf had to ditch Jamaat to please the Yanks. His party still colluded with Musharraf to pass the 17th amendment and indirectly helped him again by initiating a case in the Supreme Court instead of resigning from the parliament and launching a movement for the formation of a national government to hold free and fair elections.
Imran Khan generally says the right things but does not have the guts to stand on his own. His past is clouded with contacts with characters like Hamid Gul in his initial days and his support for the farcical referendum. Anyway, his is too small a party to have any real chance in the near future.