It took almost a hundred years for the East India Company to establish its rule over the subcontinent. The modern day colonisation process is much simpler and far more efficient. Plant your own nationals at the top key decision making positions of a country and let them do the rest. Pakistan is perhaps the best example of how a country can be taken over without a formal process of invasion. We are now rapidly discovering (rather late in the day) that scores of our top politicians, bureaucrats , governors and other individuals holding key positions are in fact foreign nationals.
Rehman Malik and Farah Naz are just the tip of a huge iceberg. More and more names such as the State Bank Governor, the Federal Finance Minister and the Punjab Finance Minister have now begun to appear in the press. A small hint on why we our eternal begging is partly real and partly orchestrated. Interestingly, while the discovery may be new for ordinary people, the government always knew of this fact and was in fact hiding and telling lies about it. The seven times denial of my request (under the Freedom of Information Act) for disclosing dual nationality parliamentarians is a case in point.
Is it enough to disqualify or remove these individuals from their jobs? Did they not knowingly violate the law of the land? Should they not deserve prison sentences for their fraudulent acts such as hiding their true acquired nationality or the earlier reported cases of manufacturing fake degrees? Should we not question our sleepy justice system for doing too little and too late? Should all politicians, governors, judges and civil and military bureaucrats not be investigated and their true nationalities identified?
A nation that regularly shoots of nuke capable missiles should at least be able to figure out the foreigners amongst its ranks. Examine the passports on which these individuals travel to their real motherlands or simply use the Freedom of Information Law of UK, USA or Canada and you can readily obtain the citizenship status of any individual.
NAEEM SADIQ
Lahore
Both the Mush junta and PPP appointed a team in Finance Ministry who had been on the payroll of IMF, World Bank, ADP etc. From M Ahmed onwards almost every Deputy Chairman Planning Comm, including the present Dr Nadeem Ul Haq are either US residents or have a permanent residential status with all their children living there. Today even the Gov State Bank and Auditor Gen of Pakistan are foreign nationals who have sworn an oath of loyalty to another country. We are country which has is being colonised economically. It was Shaukat Aziz who put all our Forex Reserves in a US Bank.
Multani; do you know that the only government to throw out IMF out of Pakistan was Musharraf government. Pakistan was counted in next eleven for the very first time.and the growth rate was nealry 7 % through out. On 9/11pak fx reserves stood at 3.1 billion dollars from whereas on the nawaz was thrown out it stood at 0.4 billion and Pakistan was on the verge of bankruptsy
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