To be or not to be

Few days ago David Cameron described Afghanistan and Nigeria as fantastically corrupt countries fortunately forgetting Pakistan in a recent anti corruption summit. Although panama-gate may prove to be the last nail in the corruption laden leaders coffins or maybe not.

Pakistan's Chief of army staff general Raheel shareef has taken a bold step to dismiss army personnel involved in corruption scandals. Even a lieutenant general was among the casualties of these dismissals. The army chief then conveyed a strong message to prime minister to quickly deal with the issue of panama scandal as it is thwarting our efforts to fight the menace of terrorism and other challenges facing Pakistan. 

Nawaz sharif maybe disgusted by the call from david Cameron's proposal to ban the black money pouring inside UK and name the beneficial owners of the property.

Some media analysts and experts are in favor of letting the bygones be bygones and accepting the corruption as a norm of this country. 

2050 is round the corner and it is expected that population will shoot up to 350 to 400 million. There are much more dangerous trends coming up to haunt the nation. These are water shortage, Power, climate, food insecurity, health and hygiene,education, law and order, medieval budgetary allocations, nuclear doctrines and deployments, no war no peace and zero sum regional strategies. All these problems are not worrying our elected enemies?

In the name of reconciliation all the misdemeanors are swept under carpet in this godforsaken country. Although panama accusations are enough to oust leaders of civilized world out of their office. PM's moral defeat has made him low on credibility and with this situation looming he can no more command authority over matters of morality and legal importance in this country. The country of Quaid and Allama Iqbal stands shameful in current situation to the ideal on which it was built. 

COAS has thwarted PM's move to blackmail him  by refusing to take extension. Now all the heat is behind PM to deliver on promises of nibbing corruption by starting accountability from himself.

Civilian and Military's non compliance of judicial orders have brought constitution into disrepute in the past. 

Learning from the past, Millitary rule is no answer to the contentious issues facing the country either..

No PM can dictate terms of investigation of his/her own legitimacy and accountability. Parliament can impeach the PM but apparently its a rubber-stamp.

As PM is the prime suspect, his investigation must be prioritized. No country can run with the PM accused of stealing money from its country. Other individuals accountability must also follow the due process.

One possibility for the deadlock to end is by calling early elections and the accused be not allowed to contest until cleared by the investigating authorities. UN can play a role to ensure free and fair elections because of the tarnished image of election commission of Pakistan.

Army can also assist the investigation  but never to step out of its boots and start a new misadventure which leaves the country on perpetual road of devastation.

Sources:   http://www.dawn.com/news/1258143