Yousuf Raza Gilani will perhaps be remembered in history as the man who brought shame to all prime ministers of the world in all times. Faced with the threat of life from his party boss and the thought of humiliation in the Supreme Court he took leave of his senses and began a most insolent campaign against the superior judiciary. Or, perhaps he was punch drunk with power. All this begins to make sense when one starts looking at the background of the People’s Party which was founded by people with communist connections and leanings, who could not help having contempt for all judicial and moral institutions. Its founder allowed the country to be divided and its army to be subjugated in order to gain premiership for himself.
It is really sad that his able counsel Ahsan has not informed Gilani that he has been convicted and punished under a clause of the constitution that automatically terminates his tenure in the parliament. If he clings to the office like a leach he would be liable to final termination under Article 6 of the Constitution of Pakistan. So he should get out of the PM house soon or the gallows will be his fate and the case can come up at any time in his life.
What is more ironic is that he took this tragedy upon himself for a man who is already doomed. The Swiss and other European cases will not go away with the passage of time. And no matter how he bargains with even the Devil himself, his party won’t win the next election. I have to shut my Seraiki chauffeur off every so often when tries to explain to me the popular perception of who murdered Benazir and why. The leaders of People’s Party, living in their ivory towers built with people’s money, who have turned into new Pharaohs will never know what got them.
May Allah guide them to the right path.
