Justice can wait

Justice can wait

Dr. Jassim Taqui

The people could not believe the judgment of the Supreme Court, which almost acquitted the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of massive corruption and money laundering. The three judges could not see the elephant in the room, which was spotted by the two authors of the minority judgment.

And in their infinite wisdom, the judges allowed Nawaz Sharif to continue as prime minister and to also constitute the JIT. Thus he has become a Supremo and the sole authority to further investigate the money transaction from Qatar and London. Hence, Nawaz Sharif is acting both as an accused and prosecutor.

The greatest surprise is that the Supreme Court ignored the written confession of the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar that he himself was responsible for laundering the dirty money of Sharif brothers. The confession was produced with the handwriting of Dar who volunteered to give also the secret account and fake account holders of the laundered money. Nobody could have forced him to disclose all these facts.

Nawaz Sharif is known by his method of winning the judges. When the former Chief Justice of Pakistan Sayed Sajjad Ali Shah summoned him in November 1997 to explain his position on corruption charges, he simply refused. And when the Chief Justice served him with the contempt of court notice, Nawaz Sharif ordered his party and the Punjab police to storm the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 21^st November 1997. The BBC showed live the PML(N) mob, which was led by Mushahid Hussain Sayed storming the Supreme Court.

Nawaz Sharif went further when he assigned his brother Shahbaz Sharif the mission of buying the judges to unjustly and arrogantly dismiss the Chief Justice of Pakistan in December 1997.

In 1997, the Sharif brothers humiliated the entire people of Pakistan by disgracing the Supreme Court.  In 2017, they combine to kill justice and to legalize corruption and money laundering. And their notion is that justice can wait.