The panama leak has certainly heralded something new and
quite unknown. It has dragged into controversy the known political and business
figures across the world. Those who have been accused have shown their
reactions in one way or the other. Names of the relatives of the sitting prime minster of Pakistan have
also been included in the list of culprits. The controversy has invited various
reactions from the political circles of Pakistan.
The opposition parties have sprung into action and want the
government to conduct a fair and transparent inquiry into the matter.PPP and,
the arch rival of PML-N, the PTI are more active in this regard.
PTI holds that it is the manifestation of their years long
stance about the tax evasion by the sharif family, and the revelations has come
by its own without any instigation by the PTI. They demand that the Prime
minister should resign and conduct an independent inquiry into the matter. PTI
chairman has also shown the intention of making a speech to the public through the
state-owned television (PTV) so that he may show the real facts to the nation.
In light of all these developments the question arises
whether the Prime minister needs to resign or not. After all it is moral
question and not a legal thing which can compel the Prime minister to do so.
The prime mister has been made safe from the arbitrary removal under the 18
constitutional amendments to constitution of Pakistan. Prime minster has to
complete his constitutionally provided five years tenure. But is only a moral
question for him to do so.
The PTI has also demanded his resignation in the near past,
alleging the prime minister of rigging the general election of 2013 in his
favor. PTI had staged a lengthy sit- in the capital demanding his resignation
but the prime minister had been adamant to their demand. He ,however, ordered a
judicial inquiry commission for the investigation into the matter. The findings
of the commission in its report hardly testified the allegations of the PTI.
The prime minister of Iceland resigned due to the adverse
public opinion , making it a precedent the opposition parties of Pakistan
demand that the Prime minister of
Pakistan should also resign. But it is totally a moral question to do so,
because he is in no way legally bound to do so. If he does so it will be a new
addition to the existing political culture of Pakistan, which is by and large
so far not known here.
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