On Pakistan's 79th Independence Day, a senior PPP leader in Vehari offered a quiet but pointed argument: that the country's deepest political deficit is not policy, but character. Natasha Daultana held up the voluntary sacrifices of the Bhutto siblings — a salary declined, a commercial flight taken — as small acts carrying a larger moral weight, suggesting that genuine leadership begins not with the claiming of privilege but with its deliberate refusal. Her words placed a perennial human question at the center of Pakistani governance: whether those entrusted with power can be persuaded to serv