Please resign
Sir,
As time passes, the prime
minister’s cronies begin to realize that it won’t be long before they are sent
home. They start making strange and desperate statements. The latest one is a
gem from Railways Minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq. According to him, his boss is
being victimized because he was the one who made Pakistan a nuclear power. He
doesn’t explain why whoever is victimizing him waited almost two decades.
Surely those behind the so-called “victimization” are powerful enough to have
arranged his removal from the scene long ago?
It is also becoming clear
that Nawaz Sharif doesn’t have any control over his minions. Why should the
railways minister have to explain why the prime minister is being treated
unfairly? We have a minister of state for information to do this job. Then
there is Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, who believes he is also the foreign
minister. Why did he have to criticize the US for “speaking the language of
Indians” after the Modi-Trump meeting? That’s what the foreign minister should
do; unfortunately our prime minister has never thought it important to appoint
one. Since Nawaz Sharif cannot ensure that his ministers do only what they’re
supposed to do, he should resign and hand the government over to someone who is
more capable than him.
Shakir
Lakhani
Karachi.
Printed
in Friday Times, July 21, 2017
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/letters-178/
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