Go Zardari Face the Cases
By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Politics • One ResponseIf President Asif Ali Zardari really wants to fill in the shoes of his late wife, the two time prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, who was brutally assassinated in 2007 during an era of a dictator in the city, where her father was murdered through the courts upon the orders of a dictator, then president has to become daring and revoke the article 248 himself and face the cases upon the charges of corruption and money laundering.
It is said that billions of dollars were skimmed by the president and there are cases regarding them pending in the Swiss court, which the supreme court has ordered to be reopened. That is the real bone of contention, because chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is bent on doing justice, whereas government wants to remain behind the immunity.
President Zardari should write a new chapter in the history of this country and come out and declare that his hands are clean and he has nothing to hide and nothing to fear as he is ready to face the courts, because these courts are just and free. That would be not only great for the president himself but also for his party and above all for the country and the people of Pakistan.
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The accountability process should not be confined only to the PPP, whose leaders had been politically victimised time and again. PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was victimised and subjected to judicial murder, while party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had also been kept in jail for long years to victimise him politically. Zardari spent 11 years in jails, but not a single case was proved against him and now, once again, baseless charges were being levelled against him. PPP did not file any politically-motivated case against the opponents despite the fact that the party itself remained a target of this sort of victimisation. If the politicians could be taken to task, why the judges and generals couldn’t be, who had been conspiring against democratic set-ups in the past. If politicians could have been held accountable for their actions since 1970, the judiciary should also be asked for its acts from 2007 onwards. The judges, generals, politicians and all those who played dubious roles in the past should be held accountable for their deeds. Even those who had remained part and parcel of subverting the Constitution by joining hands with dictators like Ziaul Haq and Musharraf were now raising questions about the delay in the scrapping of the 17th Amendment.