Credit: Dawn .com: By Irfan Hussain
ODDLY, the two institutions that bang the accountability drum the loudest are the very ones that won’t submit to oversight themselves.
The higher judiciary has used the threat of contempt of court laws to pre-empt any criticism. The security establishment relies on its muscle and its close connections with sections of the media to win immunity from public criticism.
Doubters only have to glance through the report produced by the commission set up to investigate Saleem Shahzad’s murder. Even though the crime corresponded to the pattern of earlier allegedly officially inspired kidnappings and beatings suffered by journalists, the commission hardly noticed the parallel. The report effectively let our notorious intelligence agencies off the hook.
And when the defence establishment was clearly responsible for the entire Osama bin Laden fiasco last May, the media promptly zeroed in on the civilian government, even though it had nothing to do with the matter. Imran Khan went so far as to demand Asif Zardari’s resignation.
This is what real problem Pakistan is facing. Already commented in newspaper.