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The Panama Papers seemed to suggest that the Prime Ministers two adult children had used flats in London as collateral to secure large scale loans from Deutsche Bank in 2008. These flats were owned by two British Virgin Island companies, one of which Nescoll listed Sharif s daughter, Maryam Safdar, as its only shareholder.

Maryam Safdar produced papers certifying that she was not a shareholder but merely a trustee in the firm, thus attempting to disassociate from the offshore companies.

The problem? The certificate she claimed was issued in February 2006 had used the Calibri font. The controversy eventually led to the dismissal of the Nawaz Sharif government in 2017 courtesy its Supreme Court. He is currently disqualified from contesting elections.

The confluence of power and an inflated sense of self-worth can wreak havoc over a large population, if not checked in time. The good days that Adolf Hitler had promised to Germans, or the change that Benito Mussolini had vowed to bring about, is not very different from what modern heads of states sometimes lead us to believe in the 21st century.

A quote by Hagel comes to mind: History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Calibri has had a wonderful run and has unwittingly stirred the hornets nest, has scared despots, and claimed at least one scalp. But it seems likely that its term as Microsofts default font is ending as well. In May 2021, the company announced that it will soon be replacing Calibri with another font as the default on the worlds most popular word processor.

(The author worked for the United Nations in New York and served as UNICEFs Chief of Communications.)

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