For PM of Pakistan to be seen delivering a speech from written text in Davos to an audience compromising mostly members of his delegation and Pakistani community instead of being in Pakistan visiting the next of kin of victims of Charsadda massacre, it does not send a good message. How can the PM expect foreign investors to invest in Pakistan when bulk of his own investments are outside this country? It seems that PM’s samadhi has assumed the same role as that of Asif Zardari’s sisters especially Faryal Talpur and inflicting same damage to his reputation and governance. The rise from Lambretta or Vespa to Lamborghini involves many white collar crimes and is manifest by huge properties and assets in Dubai.
Nothing is more important than the people of Pakistan who are sole beneficiaries and reason for the state of Pakistan to exist. All institutions of state including parliament, PM and his cabinet, armed forces and civil bureaucracy are there to serve the people and not for the state to serve them.
An elected PM gets powers from constitution to serve and protect people and act as a guardian of national exchequer. It is his job to ensure that all citizens enjoy equal rights and privileges and are levied uniform taxes. There is no law which gives PM authority to give yet another tax amenity to known tax evaders, instead of punishing them. Is the state trying to prove that only “fools pay taxes” in this country?
The moment PM deviates from his mandatory constitutional obligation, he violates constitution in the same manner a military usurper does when he declares martial law. Abuse of power acquired through ballot is as much a sin as abuse of power gotten through the barrel of a gun.
ANEELA CHANDIO
Sukkur
