Zahid Hussain is an author and journalist.
Zahid Hussain is an author and journalist.

FIRST it was Nawaz Sharif’s conviction and now the noose is tightening around former president Asif Ali Zardari. The plot is getting thicker.

Does it appear coincidental that days after Sharif’s conviction, a multibillion-rupee money-laundering scandal involving Zardari and his sister should surface?

One wonders why the case has been taken up now so close to the polls.

The timing of the action is particularly curious and has provided fuel to conspiracy theories about politicians being targeted before the polls in an effort to achieve the ‘desired result’.

Read the full op-ed here.

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