The Panama verdict

The much awaited verdict of the infamous Panama Papers was given on Thursday (Apr 20). After the announcement, the split decision of the apex court became extremely debatable.

In a country where we have moneyed and feudalised politics and stereotyped legal and judicial system, nothing will be changed.

Hashim Abro

Islamabad

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It was more of a damp squib than the Mother of All Bombs that this match-fixing nation feverishly awaited. We must now resign ourselves to another sixty days of renewed frenetic speculation to see the results of the promised cleansing process of the Aegean Stables.

Unfortunately, given the overall state of gross dishonesty, polarisation and ignorance in the country and the deadly direction the nation has plunged into the additional delay has thrown us back into speculative assumption – something we have been doing extremely well over the last 60 years. Trial by the media and the murderous settling of scores, under various names, have become the norm for Pakistan due to failure of the law and a marked absence of justice for the common man; a point Mashal Khan’s father sadly reiterated. One prays that this JIT will yield something tangible.

Dr Mervyn Hosein

Karachi