This is apropos a Business Recorder op-ed 'ToRs travails' carried by the newspaper on Sunday. The writer, Dr Gulfaraz Ahmed, has plausibly argued that "While the absence of statecraft and governance has enfeebled the country and our neighbour finds it an opportunity to undercut our interests far and wide our own chief executive is under tons of pressure of his own doing. The country does not have a solution to get him rid of his contagion. It is a case of the interest of hundreds of millions of masses versus that of an individual who has trapped himself in his own web that not one else is able to unwind."
That an honest and transparent investigation into the Panama leaks scandal provides the nation an opportunity of breaking the power-corruption nexus is a fact. But, no doubt, such an exercise constitutes a very difficult task for any committee to perform. The parliamentary committee comprising representatives of government and opposition parties is also one such committee. The impression that the formation of parliamentary committee had created for itself that political forces had converged to bring the country out of a crisis seems to have lost its legitimacy.