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05-01-2016, 05:26 AM
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Disbelieving truth in ICIJ clarification
If Pakistan’s opposition parties and some other people adhering to an anti-Nawaz Sharif posture for ** sound and sufficient reason can trust International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)’s previous version, why can’t they trust its latest version by way of which the ICIJ has admitted that it had erroneously included the name of the Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Nawaz Sharif while publishing details of persons who control offshore companies based on documents leaked from the law firm Mossack Fonseca?
Isn’t it like indulging in biased interpretations about popularly elected figures who are in power courtesy the public mandate that was lately declared, by Justice Nasirul Mulk-led Judicial Commission, to have been bagged in a genuine, constitutional way? At that time too, there was ** need for getting such a declaration because the public mandate was then exercised in a transparent way with almost ** chances of any kind of unfair means being practiced in polls. Nevertheless, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and a few other parties made a lot of **ise to get the mandate sifted through the judicial sieve. The end result was that the JC found ** concrete proofs of any systematic, organized rigging or counterfeiting or saying it the other way round, the opposition could **t substantiate its viewpoint despite so much **ise and uproar for which even a horrible sit-in was also staged outside the Parliament House and other important state buildings. **w, once again there seems to be ** justification to express so much resentment and hold protest rallies and public gatherings on the issue which has been rendered a **n-issue following the ICIJ clarification that Pakistani prime minister didn’t control an offshore company that appeared in the Panama Papers. Isn’t it the best moral option for any critic in this case to either totally believe a story or disbelieve it? The best- and the wise- course for all the political stakeholders rather all the national stakeholders that include the opinion-makers, too, is to promote political unity and stability, since the country is fighting on two important fronts, the terrorism front and the eco**mic front. On the eco**mic front in particular, the world-fame game-changers like China-Pakistan Eco**mic Corridor (CPEC) is undergoing its developmental phases quite rapidly and steadily. The inimical forces are out to undermine it, if **t sabotage it (the sabotage is **w a remote possibility or an impossibility given the formation of a full-fledged security contingent under the direction of COAS General Raheel Sharif who is committed to securing this gigantic project that carries colossal benefits for the entire country and the adjoining region). This doesn’t at all mean that opposition should die down. The opposition, which is the lifeline of democracy, should rather continue its constructive criticism, simultaneously suggesting and recommending plans and projects besides issuing guidelines for the sitting government after proper calculation and evaluation. Only by doing so, the opposition can claim to be a government in the waiting. Unfortunately, the government-in-the-waiting theme is misunderstood here by some of our opposition leaders who think that by demanding ouster of an elected government, they would be in a position to form the government in the ‘government in the waiting’ perspective. Let the opposition come up with the real issues like joblessness, poverty, gender discrimination, social deprivations and injustice and what **t As for the Panama Leaks issue, the anti-Nawaz allegations have lost all substance in the wake of latest ICIJ clarification which says: “Due to an editing error, a sentence in an earlier version of this story implied that the Prime Minister of Pakistan controlled an offshore company that appeared in the Panama Papers. It is his children who control the offshore companies.” On its website, ICIJ has **w ack**wledged the error and ******* all the data from its website carrying the name of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as the original Panama Papers never contained his name. أكثر... 
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