A major corruption scandal, even by the standards of corruption-ridden Pakistan, has claimed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, after a unanimous verdict at the Pakistani Supreme Court removed him from office effective immediately, forcing a scramble in his party, the Pakistani Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), to find a replacement.
It didn’t take long, as by evening it was being reported in Pakistani media outlets that the PML-N had settled on his younger brother, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, to fill the role in interim prime minister. An election is scheduled for June of next year.
The ouster of Nawaz was politically controversial, with opposition figures celebrating publicly in the capital city of Islamabad, handing out candy in the streets. In Punjab Province, however, where the Sharif family is quite popular, protesters were criticizing the court’s move.
Still, the corruption scandal which ultimately brought him down had been mounting for months, and it seemed like it was only a matter of time before he was either sacked by the courts or forced to resign in disgrace.
The younger Shahbaz Sharif has mostly avoided links to the scandal, outside of his familial ties. As an influential PML-N figure and his brother’s main ally, he is a fairly safe choice for interim prime minister, though he’s been said to be not particularly charismatic as a politician, raising doubts about whether he’ll be the candidate going into next June’s vote or just a placeholder for someone else.
Whether the crooked PM and his thriving family know it or not, the Time is Imron time..
Nawaz Sharif is removed unanimously by Five Honourable Judges of Supreme Court rightly. Besides his removal there is A BIG CRIME HE HAS BEEN COMMITTING, i.e., Instead of forcefully with good reasons pleading about Pakistan’s sacrifices during American war against terrorism, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is working against interests of Pakistan and has proven himself to be The Agent of A country India – Which is The Enemy of Humanity & Her Prime Minister Narender Modi is A Criminal Terrorist Currently Jr. Hitler, whose Terrorist Army is Committing War Crimes in Indian Occupied Kashmir and Modi’s Party is Shamelessly Crucifying Minorities in India etc., etc., and Western So-Called Civilized Countries are also Responsible in India’s War Crimes by not putting Sanctions on India….
The younger Shahbaz Sharif is also very much involved in this corruption scandal. His case too is being referred to the National Accountability Bureau, along with the finance minister Ishaq Dar, under the direction of Pakistan’s Supreme Court. No sir, he is nowhere “a fairly safe choice”.
If our goal was to improve Afghanistan by an invasion, then we should have instead gone into Pakistan and put an end to a systemic corruption that allowed the upper-half of society to own all the land, wealth, political power and healthcare.
For then we would know how to end the identical class imperialism in USA.
This is not too complicated. Coup by any other name is a coup. Judicial coup has been used before in Pakistan to oust Musharaf, once he became less obedient. Sharif, in the other hand took Pakistan into Shanghai Cooperation Organization, at the same tume India became permanent member. The bilateral problems were to be solved and mentored within the organization, and outside of the reach of western medlers. The economic corridor investment, Gwadar port, Pakistan’s change of Afghanistan policy — all resulted in the loss of US influence in Pakistan and India as well.
There are deep entrenched interests in both countries that see their interests affected, and their power diminished. In Pakistan, these are powerfull terror barrons that made fortunes in Gulf money, organizing and financing terror groups to undermine any peace initiatives, harm tribes that did not obey occupational forces, provoking conflicts, etc. The entire Taliban army was produced in Pakistan, where hundreds of madrasas trained poor Pakistani youth for mercenary mission in Afghanistan. But these were staffed by Saudi Wahhabi preachers, and the virus of Wahhabism has spread in the region. Until today, all media and Western politicians are calling Afghan tribes “Taliban” as if they are all “students”. It is for the sake of Western public that needs to be fed simple narrative.
As for cortuption, it is not worth wasting words on such nonsense. Issues of corruption have been muddled to the point of becoming meaningless. Institutions of democratic governance have been bent and broken by powerfull interests that influence politics.. The corruption is now a key ingredient of “democratic” processes. But as changes are necessary — and entranched interests not willing to give way — power struggle will take many forms and use many instruments. And one of the most laughable notions is — that there is such a thing as jndependent judiciary. It is just that it is much easier to influence s hanful of judges or few hundred politicians then a powerful military, an absolute monarchy or a civilian-military dictatorship. Color revolurions, armed “rebels” and outright invasions are reserved for those.
In Pakistan, the old Butho dynasty generously funded from the Gulf — is not giving up. We live in very interesting times.
This is especially odd because the alleged corruption was family corruption, not the individual who is himself in office who was caught. Putting in his brother defeats the whole point. That may be known by all involved, and a compromise not acknowledged in the West’s understanding of this outcome.
Pakistan is the absolute pits when it comes to brutal imperialism toward the impoverished and uneducated laboring-class. Walking in a slum the people look like midgets compared to those in the educated and well fed middle-class, for due to malnutrition each new generation of babies is stunted compared to the previous.