What Punjab government must doAfter bending over backwards to keep Justice Najafi’s report from public view, and failing, the Punjab government is doing itself no favours by disputing it’s the meaning of its contents. With calls for resignations of both Shahbaz Sharif and Rana Sanaullah snowballing, PML-N bigwigs will need more than a flat rejection of the report to walk away clean from this. With elections around the corner, and the legal noose tightening around the Sharif family, the last thing PML-N needs is to mishandle the damning report and invite another dharna. The report did not put it in black and white, but there’s enough there to connect the dots without much trouble, as Justice Najafi noted in his concluding remarks. Anything less and the government might not be able to wriggle well enough to avoid the axe this time.

Source: Pakistan Today December 07, 2017 03:00 UTC