THIS is apropos your editorial ‘PM’s accountability’ (July16). You have accused the joint investigation team (JIT) of being hostile to Nawaz Sharif, his sons and daughter. But you failed to mention the arrogance of Maryam, Hassan and Hussain Nawaz. Were they not behaving as if they were royalties?

The dirty money has turned them into a kind of arrogant bullies. Maryam said that Nawaz Sharif would become the prime minister not for the fourth time but also for the fifth time, a mindboggling proposition.

When journalists were asking questions, she abruptly called off the press conference and walked off, as if she were a princess.

Is Pakistan their fiefdom? It is a pity that you have chosen to defend editorially a family which is amassing wealth through corruption.

Nawaz Sharif is the man whose cronies stormed the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1997 and he is the man who had staged a ‘coup’ of sorts even within the army by appointing Ziauddin Butt as army chief while the incumbent was on an official visit to Sri Lanka.

For power and wealth this family can do anything and still pretends that it is honest.

Safir Siddiqui

Karachi

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NAWAZ Sharif has lost the social, political, physical and mental war, but he wants to fight it out to the last.

Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on a TV channel the purpose of the joint investigation team (JIT) was to embarrass the prime minister and commit his character assassination. These ministers have been given the task to defend him.

It seems the minister has not read the JIT report, otherwise he would not have been defending his leader’s corruption.

These PML-N leaders should do some soul-searching before talking about ethics or democracy. They have buried the morality and divorced ethics and values from the political dialogue and conversation. It is a deplorable situation.

Javed Bashir

Lahore

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I SEE ministers on TV channels holding press conferences outside the Supreme Court. I see them using harsh words on TV channel. I see ministers supporting a family.

I want to know under what rule the ministers speak publicly in favour of a family which is being asked simply to produce a legal source of income.

Isn’t every citizen supposed to give a source of income and pay the tax? Haven’t these ministers taken an oath to serve the nation and the masses and not one family? What I see is they are serving a family. They have become mere slaves of a man, his sons and a daughter.

They are pursuing a kingship and not democracy. Has anyone heard them crying their heart out for the masses, giving some ideas to improve their respective sectors? While the state-owned PTV does not air budget speeches by the opposition, the same TV airs these vociferous ministers, defending the godfather.

A segment in our society laments that uniformed men have destroyed the country; why don’t they see that these people have destroyed it more?

Syra Fareen

Islamabad

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2017