This is apropos a Business Recorder editorial "Game of thrones" carried by the newspaper on Tuesday. It has argued, inter alia, that "the verdict implies that the mountain of charges of Nawaz Sharif and his family living beyond their known sources of income, owning offshore companies and properties abroad and could not be justified through a legitimate money trail (implying money laundering), could not be proved through clinching evidence, despite the backbreaking (and controversial) efforts of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT)."

This is indeed a profound comment on the verdict because of a variety of reasons. The newly-elected prime minister of PML-N, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, for example, has reiterated that the former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, had never committed any corruption. He is perhaps trying to cash in on the opportunity that the SC verdict has thrown up for him as the judgement arguably lacks clarity. It is not clear, for example, that the apex court has barred Nawaz Sharif from politics for life.

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