Pakistan has a problem: Liberals. This breed of lowlifes are ever ready to exalt the mere suggestions of their masters. And this is exactly what is happening with these laws and the people cheering them.
These laws have a context. Before these laws, Pakistan's finance ministry is being run by an IMF agent Abdul Hafeez Shaikh. The FBR was being run by another IMF agent until he was removed and now there is an open question about who actually is the head of FBR (reference Dr. Shahid Masood's question during his daily program). The previous guy, Shabbar Zaidi tried to drown the country in a sea of documentation by asking for extensive documentation. This is a socialist tactic to embroil society in such rigmarole, it takes away people's will to live and think. This is the hell that Shabbar Zaidi was trying to create:
The Soviet Union was notorious for its endless form-filling and procrastination. Nothing much seems to have changed, as our Moscow correspondent discovered when she tried to get some dry cleaning done
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Please read that link in depth. Finally, there has been an attempt at cutting Pakistan government's money supply by putting the State Bank under IMF control. But when you have the kind of people who want to make Pakistan the 51st American state (discussed immediately after Musharraf came to power), the indignity of foreign take over and being told what to do in your own country becomes a medal of honor.
And then we have the Chief Mental Slave Imran Khan who thinks Denmark and other Scandinavian countries are the true representation of 'Riasat-e-Madina' (Al 'Aayazu Billah).
In this context, you are being asked to show that you are not a Politically Exposed Person. Tell me, isn't Nawaz Sharif the grand daddy, the leader of all PEPs in Pakistan? This man is currently sitting in Britain and plotting against Pakistan, tarnishing its reputation, and enjoying himself. It is indignity of the highest order that the people who are harboring the leader of your PEPs are now telling ordinary Pakistanis to show they are not PEPs. This inconvenient point is obviously lost upon the liberals.
But regardless, when my known enemy is telling me to draft laws, I already know they are not going to be in my favor. Furthermore, the liberals on this thread need to find some way to attain a high moral ground. And so, instead of limiting the discussion to the point at hand - the proof of not being a PEP - they must bring in other matters such as paying taxes and documenting the economy. These points are not being denied so why are they being brought up?
I think the master stroke of Western imperialism is not just binding Pakistanis within laws of their own choosing, it is in taking away their mental capacity to realize they are being ridiculed and insulted. For the record, I would like to point out that each and every one of the measures that I have lambasted above, I would have supported them if they had been introduced by intelligent, independent thinking, Muslim and patriotic Pakistanis and implemented and adjudicated by the same. But when I see two pence curs managing the entire initiative, I puke.