Remember this story in The News on November 3 by its Group Editor, Shaheen Sehbai ? The front page 'expose' of an allegedly massive corruption scandal around the Reko Diq copper and gold mining project in Balochistan set tongues wagging all over Pakistan and among Pakistani expatriates abroad. The scale of the scandal was said to dwarf all previous scandals. The headline screamed: "$260 billion gold mines going for a song, behind closed doors" Front page of The News on November 3, 2010 Now, in case you didn't follow the story or do not remember the exact words Mr. Sehbai used in his typically convoluted but bombastic style, let me briefly remind you what the investigative story said. Mr Sehbai begins by building conspiratorial suspense, clearly implying that President Zardari and his partymen are on the take to sell national wealth down the river to line their own pockets: "Quietly, and below the media radar, some 20 top corporate bosses and lobbyists of...