Pakistan acted on the Panama papers is a big news since a lot of countries with allegedly a hard stance against corruption did not.
True. Especially in India where it's wasn't even covered much in the news
How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)
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#82Would using the hidden printer tracking dots/stenography also work to disprove the documents age?
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I double Hamza Shahbaz or Mariam Nawaz even know how to use Word on a normal PC, let alone get and install beta software.
Its not my problem that the defense never brought it up. Shows a real lack of imagination. "Actually we used to moonlight on Craigslist and routinely searched for fonts in leaked beta software to differentiate ourselves" Now I'm being facetious. But there are a lot of probable ways a font was added, ESPECIALLY for people that aren't good with computers. A toolbar added by a hacker group could have stolen fonts in it.
A lot of improbable ways
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#84Looks like that Zardari is next: https://www.dawn.com/news/1418348/eminent-banker-and-zardari...
Hussain Lawai - Zardari's personal banker. There can't be anybody with more dirt on "the Beast" than him.
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#85This may not amount to much for Pakistani people. The forces and judiciary are so pathetically weak that they couldn't force the PM and his Daughter and his sons to remain inside of Pakistan - so what if the PM's wife is sick in London (which we don't even know if it's true) - let her die alone because she and her life is worthless for Pakistani people. For months the PM's daughter barked daily in front of masses against the judiciary yet received full security protocol and no judge's order was put forward to muzzle her rabid speeches.
And then there is the magical softening of stance overnight and miracle reduction of punishments which Pakistani judges are famous for - absolute joke. I won't be surprised at all if at the end of day, all he gets is a 'warning' and 'stern lecture'.
Finally, PM in question and his family aren't the only corrupt folks in Pakistan - the other 'dynasty' is the PPP-clan of Bhuttos/Zardaris -- now watch them flee scotch-free from Pakistan.
And the icing on cake - UK/UAE/Swiss are among nations which actively harbor corrupt and dangerous Pakistani individuals, have granted them/their families citizenship, and allow them to bring their illegal wealth - these Govts will not send the wealth or the individuals back to Pakistan. Perhaps Pakistani ISI should learn from Israel's Mossad.
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#86This may not amount to much for Pakistani people. The forces and judiciary are so pathetically weak that they couldn't force the PM and his Daughter and his sons to remain inside of Pakistan - so what if the PM's wife is sick in London (which we don't even know if it's true) - let her die alone because she and her life is worthless for Pakistani people. For months the PM's daughter barked daily in front of masses aga…
Slightly offtopic, but this [1] is a great series of podcasts about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. No idea if she would have made a good leader, but she was certainly brave. Even if you're not interested in Pakistani politics, it's still fascinating.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cgx/episodes/downloads
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or someone else smuggled the font on their computer, so to set them up on this corruption case 12 years later ... also possible, but even less likely.
or a Pakistani web/graphic designer was in their family and the oversaturated race to the bottom resulted in obtaining that unique touch. surprised that never came up during the case, but Pakistan drama is fun to watch play out from afar.
What do you mean by “race to the bottom”?
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#88This may not amount to much for Pakistani people. The forces and judiciary are so pathetically weak that they couldn't force the PM and his Daughter and his sons to remain inside of Pakistan - so what if the PM's wife is sick in London (which we don't even know if it's true) - let her die alone because she and her life is worthless for Pakistani people. For months the PM's daughter barked daily in front of masses aga…
Slightly offtopic, but this [1] is a great series of podcasts about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. No idea if she would have made a good leader, but she was certainly brave. Even if you're not interested in Pakistani politics, it's still fascinating. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cgx/episodes/downloads
How was she brave? She was born into a political dynasty. Used the platform laid down by her Daddy to jumpstart her own political career. Lived a privileged, pampered life. Brokered deals with the scum Taliban to help further her ambitions. Under her party the economy ALWAYS suffer and corruption increases.
It is better to take a tennis ball, declare it the next PM+Emperor-for-life of Pakistan then anybody from the Bhutto party PPP.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
The letters were short, so someone could easily have retyped them in Word. Did anyone old enough to have used a typewriter seriously claim they were photocopies of 70s era typewritten documents? Surely Dan Rather of all people must have some experience with typewriters.
Yes, on air Dan Rather did in fact claim they were taken directly from Killian’s files and had been ‘authenticated’. The person who sent them to 60 Minutes also claimed they were originals, which he subsequently burned after faxing. CBS then spent the next couple of weeks in a ‘strident defense’ (their own investigators’ words) of the documents and their use, before ceding they screwed up and firing people over the i…
Culturally, this to me is a turning point of the political bloggers -- the knee in the curve of their credibility and a large drop in the trust of the news media, particularly among conservatives.
The blogs leading the document debunking were Powerline and Little Green Footballs.
This was also when the term Pajamas Media was coined (quote from wikipedia PJ_Media page):
> The network's original name was derived from a dismissive comment made by former CBS news executive Jonathan Klein during the 2004 Killian documents affair: "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances at 60 Minutes and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas."
I followed the whole thing closely at the time -- it was a bit surreal.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Judicial experts in France love to make reports with fancy fonts.
My quick Google was unsuccessful. Care to provide an example?
That's what I found on google [1]. I am not in that profession but the TV show "Faites entrer l'accuse" often shows extracts of medical or psychological reports, and they often use a font of that kind, sort of intermediary between hand-writing and machine type. Certainly not the default font of any text editor I am aware of.
[1] http://pedophilie-castres.over-blog.com/article-piece-n-3-qu...