Should Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif be allowed to return?
Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto fled the country on their own, basically to seek refuge from the accountability process. Ms Bhutto is in self-exile and seeking a deal with the military government before returning home. The Supreme Court never acquitted her but ordered a retrial. She chooses to stay outside the country and uses the party to blackmail the government. In credible democracies, their parties would have suspended them till the time they were cleared by the courts of corruption charges. Unfortunately, in Pakistan, the judiciary has never been able to convict those in power, subordinate as it always has been to the executive. Each time Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto came to power, all corruption charges against them were dropped.For Pakistanis, the only hope of true democracy lies in the Election Commission not allowing the super crooks to enter Parliament. How free would you be in trying to improve relations with India? I think the failure to live in peace has much to do wit
