The thoughtful visit was given a big buildup by some fevered imaginations, but as Mr Bhutto Zardari was at pains to point out, there was no political agenda, and his sole motive was humanitarian, as he had learnt that Mian Nawaz was in a bad way, health-wise. It can also be assumed for argument’s sake that Mr Bhutto Zardari was taking his chairmanship of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights, to which he was elected unanimously on March 5, in its truest sense. He had tweeted then, ‘human rights are the foundation stone of any democracy…we must ensure every Pakistani’s human rights’ and later expansively declared that without human rights, freedom of expression, access to education and healthcare, or the rule of law and justice, cannot be guaranteed. But Mr Bhutto Zardari should also have done his bit to persuade a stubborn or defiant Mian Nawaz to get proper treatment in hospital. The people’s and ‘general’ slogan is: God save us from another election campaign so soon after 2018 polls.

Source: Pakistan Today March 13, 2019 06:00 UTC