It is difficult to escape the sense that the ruling elite has once again drifted into a political drama where personalities loom larger than the institutions meant to restrain them. The latest disclosures from infamous offender Jeffrey Epstein’s leaked emails to a new round of investigative reporting on former prime minister Imran Khan’s inner circle […]
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The scandal of justice
A storm has engulfed the judiciary after explosive allegations surfaced in the corruption trial of Muhammad Khan Bhatti, the once all-powerful principal secretary to former chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi. According to claims now rippling through legal circles, a Special Judge in Gujranwala allegedly altered an adjournment order in the dead of night, and just […]
Corruption scandal in Argentina fells titans of business
Records kept in notebooks of the kinds used by schoolchildren are bringing down titans of Argentina’s industry in a multimillion-dollar corruption scandal. Dirty dealings are nothing new in Argentina. What sets this case apart is the large number of people going down — around 20 so far, with additional names surfacing regularly — and their […]