LETTER: This is apropos a Business Recorder editorial “Whistling in the wind” carried by the newspaper yesterday. The newspaper has concluded its argument by saying that “The reasons are in plain sight of those not wearing partisan blinkers. Pakistan and the UK have no mutual extradition treaty. The British courts, should they be approached, are unlikely to rule adversely on a matter of a person’s health and life, particularly at the prospect of such a person being lodged in a jail cell immediately after return. In principle, PM Imran Khan’s desire to use legal means for the purpose is laudable, but the obstacles to such a course may mean all the government’s huffing and puffing on the issue is merely whistling in the wind”.

That Nawaz Sharif and others are not going to come back to the country on their own volition there is no doubt about it. The government’s argument that it had allowed the PML-N supremo exit in accordance with court’s orders and in good faith just does not hold water. If the government believes that its argument is reasonable and in accordance with the fact it must take the legal recourse without any further loss of time. It had allowed Nawaz Sharif to leave the country because it wanted him to leave the country for whatever reasons. It must stop giving an impression that it is crying over spilt milk.

HAMZA JAWWAD (LAHORE)

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