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Originally Posted by ehtasab
I am not implying that I would let Musharraf escape free a la Nawaz style 
Zardari was jailed for around 10 years? but that does not mean he has served his complete term,.....
Again, Musharraf wouldn't go scott free from the crimes he committed. |
Baba loag! the top leadership in Pakistan (or any other civilized society) is very hard to prosecute. The reason is simple. Whatever "kartoots" they do, they do not leave a paper trail. Even if there is a paper trail, it is buried so deep that you have to wait until Qiyamat before you could uncover a tiny bit of it.
Secondly when these "ex-leaders" were doing bad things, many in the "current-leadership" including bureaucrats and generals were their helpers. So the evidence of any wrong doings evaporates in the thin air.
And court system is utterly dependent on "paper trail" or evidence. In the absence of evidence, courts have to let them go. The usual result is that the top guys go home and the nation is left with so much bitterness.
Thus it is not to let anyone go "scott free", but rather to reduce the bitterness and intolerance in the nation, the top leadership should be allowed to live off their last years in peace.
Looking at the results of the recent past "Nabbing" and prosecutions, it will be reasonable to say that we should not have made the case against Zardari, or Nawaz Sharif either.
All that corruption hoopla went to waste when the nation elected / selected them in an open election. So for ordinary people it didn't matter if AZ or NS did anything wrong. We the educated elite should learn from these "ordinary people" and quit arguing about innocence or corruption of the top leadership.
Look Nawaz was already "Sharif" (innocent). We should start calling other leaders sharif as well. Like Zardari Sharif, Pervez Sharif, BB shaheed sharif, Ilahi chodhry sharif etc. etc. just like medieval Christians used to call "Pope" the "innocent".