WHEN upholding Godfather’s view that behind every fortune there is a crime, stories of the success of men like Bill Gates have not been taken notice of. Warren Buffet had become bankrupt in the seventies. Now he is as rich as Bill Gates. The whole world knows there has never been any crime behind their success and the success of many others like them.

Courts also lay moral standards. They are also educators, and must not tell our youth that fortunes cannot be earned lawfully, and to be rich they ought to resort to crime.

Azam Sultan Suharwardy

Lahore

Published in Dawn, July 19th, 2017

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