JIT finds Maryam’s tweet of two Holy verses also obstructive!

ISLAMABAD: Some 351 instances submitted by the Panama case Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to the apex court, which it alleges obstructed its smooth functioning, also include a tweet which only contains two verses of Holy Quran without any comment. 

Almost all the instances including steps taken by some organisations, monitoring of electronic, print and social quoted in the application are hilarious.

According to the JIT, even the tweet containing verses of Quran is tantamount to “Bashing of JIT & Supreme Court of Pakistan”. JIT mentioned this in writing. An image attached with the tweet contains Arabic text of one verse which is also translated as, “Sufficient for us is Allah, and He is the best Disposer of affairs”. The text of the other tweet reads, “And they planned and Allah (also) planned. And Allah is the best of planners. Quran”. The tweet was posted by Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. 

Now the JIT considers the translation of this Quran verse is as bashing of JIT/Supreme Court of Pakistan. No explanation is given as to how simply writing the translation of a verse which is simply discussing ‘plans made by some people’ and declaring that ‘Allah is the best of the planners’ can be bashing of the JIT or Supreme Court. 

Not only this almost all the tweets, Facebook and WhatsApp messages are mere comments of individuals and can in no way obstruct the smooth functioning of the JIT if it reallyhas some meat relating to its original task. It is being commented by experts that if JIT doesn’t have any substantial stuff or it has failed to collect any admissible evidence, and submitting such stuff before the Supreme Court is the best strategy to save face. 

Those who prepared the social media evidence for the JIT are simply unaware of terminologies of Social Media, especially Twitter. Those much-talked-about social media teams gathering these Twitter posts for the JIT to be submitted as evidence before the court seem to be very much disturbed and shaken because of the SC Registrar’ secret WhatsApp call stories. They didn’t realize that something becomes a trend on Twitter when majority of the people using Twitter are discussing that specific topic with or without a hashtag(#). The next in line of hilarious instances creating obstruction is an image of Twitter trends which only show that a trend #WhatAppCall is trending on Twitter. According to the JIT, the trending of this trend #WhatsAppCall was also “Bashing of JIT/Supreme Court.” 

Yet another tweet simply reading that when the Supreme Court judges were sacked during military dictatorship, someone should have raised voice at that time exposing Sicilian Mafia but no one spoke at that time. This was simple comment. One can disagree. But how can one challenge the freedom of speech and expression of the citizens simply because he is unable to understand the meanings of some sentence. In another instances provided to the JIT and submitted before the SC reads; “All those having any statements or videos of Imran Khan in which he is ridiculing judiciary, please share web-links with . . .” Now this is not at all linked with the Panama Case or JIT and is only about effort of a person to collect web-links of anti-judiciary statements and speeches of the PTI chief. However, one wonders why something that could be adverse towards Imran Khan is so obstructive for the JIT. 

Many tweets, writers, journalists, analysts, commentators quoted in the JIT report raise questions over inclusion of members from the ISI and the MI in the JIT. All of them reject the wisdom behind this move. Analyst Awais Towheed is quoted as making comment in an April 21 program, “This precedence is not good under democratic government that members of MI and ISI are included in JIT. Practicable problems, by including ISI & MI members would be that, one day PM, DG ISI, DG MI, COAS would meet, discuss Pak-India, Pak-Afghanistan relations, other day members would be appointed by DG ISI and DG MI to investigate the PM and report that these are the charges against PM. how is it possible? 

Majority of the columns and news items provided to the JIT and submitted by it before the SC are correct and proved news items are mere opinions of writers and analysts. It is really disturbing that Supreme Court is totally misled in some instances submitted by the JIT. Even some comments made by this scribe in some programs are simply misquoted by those who provided the input to the JIT and which became part of the JIT application. One wonders what will be the status of truthfulness in other issues.   

Regarding allegations against institutions, in case of one allegation, it is simply alleged that record is tampered in one case. Now to establish this allegation, JIT didn’t feel the need for examining the record and sending it for the forensic examination and making this final and conclusive judgement that the record has been tampered with on the basis of statement of an anonymous person “who cannot be named”. In yet another instance, it is states that examination of “technical evidence” shows that one witness Tariq Shafi was contacted by another person who gave him instructions to reach the Prime Minister’s House where the witness was given directions and was asked to make statement before JIT in accordance with these directions. Discussing facts before giving a statement about some events which took place decades before is absolutely a normal practice and one can recall many things. Hilariously, the JIT declared that it was tutoring of the witness and that it was a crime being committed in the Prime Minister’s House. Those behind providing this data to JIT were unaware of the fact that in fact tapping phone calls and monitoring physical movements of a citizen, who are not at all connected with any kind of terrorism charges, is an offence and those committing it could be proceeded against for this.