Proven guilty without due process.

Byline: GULSHER PANHWER - Johi

According to social media, despite raising sugar high blood pressure and old age, Zardari has directed his party, relatives and well-wisher not to submit application to courts for shifting him to health facilities. jail is jail, though how comfortable it may be but Zardari has kept his past tradition of not to bow before his tormentors.

Callous PTI government utterly forget the basic rule of law that is 'innocent until proven guilty'. But in this strange government everyone issues edict of 'corrupt Zardari'. But even if guilt is proven, the civilized democracies treat convicts of capital crime with humanity and provide them all the facilities particularly medical treatment without request from the convicted. From a layman perspective, the accused are not kept behind bars indefinitely but are only taken into custody when proven guilty or set free if proven innocent through a fair trial. But here in case of common persons or high profile personalities they are kept behind bars for months and years on mere suspicion. This kind of accountability is questionable, smells partiality, political motives and history has proven that no high profile personality has convicted and completed his or her jail terms.

Asif Ali Zardari is typical case study who remained in jail for 11 long years without proven guilty. The government...

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