Axact scandal: What should have been known

KARACHI: Those who resigned from Bol TV after the interior minister’s announcement to seek help from the FBI in the Axact scandal, included Wajahat Saeed Khan.
In his article published on a social website, Saeed said he should have known that there is something fishy behind this flash. He said he and his colleagues should have known when NY Times journalist Declan Walsh called him a few days ago and asked him about Axact’s business. He should have known. “When I called up one of my bosses and told him what the New York Times was working on, and heard a pause, and then a diffident ‘who cares, we will sue them’, I should’ve known.
“I should have known when I saw the flash, the cars, the protocol officers, the waiters and the chauffers. I should’ve known when I heard the carefully crafted, contrived American accents and emphasis everywhere: in the recording in the elevator that told me I was joining a global elite, in the photographer who would conduct my “branding photo shoot”. Obviously, I misread the vulgar as the virtuous.
“I felt the five-star cafeteria food taste bland, and saw my fuel card stop working. Even the janitors seemed to go missing. As the structure crumbled and the conversations got more cynical, I sensed the machine – which was going to break all machines – break down itself.”