Panamagate has been on the tip of everybody’s tongue for a year now. From the revelations to the denials to the trials, it has all been a funny business and mockery of common sense and an extreme lack of respect for the public. Putting aside the blame game and passing of judgement for a moment, let us focus on something more ironic, comical, and depressing, all at the same time. You might be wondering how one phenomenon can hold so many traits and apparently they aren’t synonymous with each other. Well! To me, they are and have been episodes of sorts for the last couple of months. Being an amateur, I can’t find an easy transition into the matter so I’ll be blunt about it and jump straight to it. Having a track of what’s happening in the political scene, I was not that ignorant of the ranting was going on in the political arena as I had been in the past because of the classical slogan – “ye Pakistan hy ”. When this whole ‘fiasco’ started, I was as optimistic as the next pers...