The Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of nineteen noble men, including our beloved Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, for their alleged involvement in rental power plants. Power plants rental or IPPs have always been PPP’s favourite arena of fortune hunting. The group about to be arrested consists of engineers, politicians, and civil servants of DMG variety, such as Shahid Rafi.
The court decision has bewildered many because so far only people of small means, mostly from small towns were tried and handed out long years in prison. This is the first time that mighty and the powerfull are about to be rounded up, which makes them run helter-skelter. Similarly, 84 billion man Tauqeer Sadiq too has been reportedly arrested from where else but Dubai, runaway swindlers’ paradise. Would these men be actually arrested and sent behind bars in ordinary jails or they would be lodged in comfortable government guesthouses with five star facilities? After all, have we not been seeing minor loan defaulters of a few hundred thousand punished by banking courts and their properties confiscated while the sharks that have gobbled up hundreds of millions go scot-free, laughing all the way to their palatial mansions. Let us support the higher judiciary for taking landmark decisions to stamp out corruption in high places.
MAJOR(R) SYED ZAHID SALAM,
Rawalpindi, January 17.