It seems lately that Shakespeare’s quote about the world being a stage and all men and women being mere players is playing out literally for our country. The theatrics our top echelons have employed in a choreographed play to the death tournament for power have stopped failing to impress. As the three arms of the State once again descend into the bucket (read Supreme Court) to display their exceptional crab mentality, the question in this round of Crab Olympics is: which crab will get away this time?
Private Contractor turned ‘Warren Buffet’ of Pakistan, Malik Riaz Hussein is a name that makes frequent rounds at all sorts of drawing rooms in Pakistan. A multi billionaire at the age of 59, there are few people in the country to match the level notoriety and reputation Riaz enjoys. A one man empire, Malik Riaz is famous for having a finger and toe in every pie that matters: all political parties according to PM Gillani enjoy the beneficence of Riaz; celebrated journalist Talat Hussain brings attention to the fact that a lot of notable journalists and analysts are good friends with Riaz, confidantes and perhaps even on his payroll; rumor has it that General Ashfaq Kayani’s brothers were a stone’s throw away from being implicated in a case similar to the one Arsalan Ifitkhar finds himself in and the whistle blowing incident might be the military’s preemptive strike on the Chief Justice; rumor mill also suggests the defendants in the Balochistan Missing Persons case, i.e. the ISI to be the ones airing Arsalan Iftikhar’s dirty laundry.
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