If the footage shown on the Geo TV is to be believed then one has to admire the cool confidence and calm composure of the lady MPA who presented the allegedly 'stolen' credit card and affixed her signatures on the bill of purchases with great aplomb. Not an eye blinked nor a finger quivered during the entire episode. A three-war hardened soldier like me would have sweated profusely. If the honourable MPA can be that deft with a card not belonging to her, what havoc could not be expected of her playing with the millions of the state she may have been entrusted to do? Hers is the 5th case bringing ignominy to the N party. When an elderly white bearded Haji MPA can cheat in an examination, when an honourable minister can not only allegedly bypass the customs channels but also manhandle the custom staff on duty, when an honourable minister can misbehave with a lady MPA on the floor of the assembly and when an honourable minister is accused of raping a woman under threat of murdering her, can the image of the politicians and the political parties remain untarnished and clean? -COL (Retd) RIAZ JAFRI, Rawalpindi, via e-mail, July 12.