Business Recorder op-ed writer Anjum Ibrahim has argued, inter alia, that "Politics is about never acknowledging serious mistakes and Pakistani politicians have displayed this tendency like their counterparts in the rest of the world.
However while in the West politicians' focus is on the defence of their policies and their far from salutary outcomes yet in this country the defence is for serious crimes be they on charges of tax evasion, money laundering, accepting commissions on the award of contracts, changing regulatory orders to benefit a political family or indeed murder or terrorism. And their defence: claims of political victimization." This appears to be sound and plausible.
Unfortunately, however, the approach shows that the writer has acquired dexterity in the art of politician-bashing. This brings to one's mind that writers and poets in particular have been targeting politicians since the ancient Greeks invented the first manual typewriter-except when they have been busy coating their works with grease or greasing up to politicians. Why do we only put the boot into politicians? Why is that bashing everything political is in fashion these days?
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