Malicious campaign

IT is unfortunate that the PPP has chosen to effectively defy the Supreme Court decision on the NRO and its aftermath. The message going out to the public at large is that the rulers will defend their alleged corruption and will not adopt a high moral ground (which could have set an example for their people) by relinquishing their offices till their names have been cleared. Interestingly, many questions are being asked about the whole Defence Minister and the ECL episode, which some say could not have happened without the clearance of the Interior Ministry at the highest level - not simply at the level of the Secretary. In other words, the whole thing was engineered to put those implementing the SC decision in a negative light. Additionally, it again made the ECL a controversial issue - but if we are clamouring to bring back Musharraf and others so that they can be tried for their sins, why should the NRO beneficiaries be allowed an escape route out of the country?
A more dangerous path that is now being adopted by the NRO beneficiaries of the ruling party is to try and discredit the judiciary by starting a massive campaign on the internet and in the media which, in a most bizarre fashion, seeks to imply that by having struck down the NRO, the judiciary has become political. Strange argument, since striking down something that contravened the Constitution and allowed whitewashing of the illegal acts of corruption and murder is a legal act alone with no political connotations - except that the affectees also include politicians.