PRIME Minister Imran Khan recently tweeted a quote from French economist Frédéric Bastiat: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

The PM went on to tweet: “The truth of this saying is reflected clearly in the way money launderers are treated and the way they behave with indignation when questioned.”

The above was reported in Dawn and other newspapers in their April 15 issue. Also reported in the newspapers was Fawad Chaudhry’s impromptu press conference where he decided to further badmouth his own former party leaders. He said: “if there was one family that had marked the beginning of modern-day corruption in Pakistan, it is the Sharif family while the Zardaris carried it forward to new heights.”

Had either of the two worthy gentlemen paused to introspect on how our myriad sacred cows and elephants have twisted Pakistan’s legal system and moral codes in our 70 odd years of existence, perhaps they might have decided that it was better to have remained quiet.

Dr Mervyn Hosein
Karachi

Published in Dawn, April 21st, 2019