The Pakistani Spectator

I usually sleep as I travel the long ride from my house to the Medical University in one of the ambulances set aside for teachers, but I was rudely interrupted in my daily morning nap by the resounding sound blaring away as a traffic elite cop went right by us, followed by a barrage of cars on the Super Highway of Pakistan( the Highway between Karachi and Hyderabad).

Dozens of cars including military mobile vans carrying (to my estimate) atleast 70-80 military personnel showing off their brass, enough to scare anyone, and to fight off a small battle.

With a few SUV s, in between which was a huge black 500 SEL, which probably carried the guy (or probably his dry cleaner) they were supposed to be escorting.

What woke me up and cleared my eyes of my dear sleep was the fact the military men were pointing their guns at us and constantly pressing the driver ‘lala’ to get down the side, I just couldn’t help but feeling like a threat in my own country.

Later on I found it was the husband of the late Madame Democracy, who is now the Supreme Leader of PPP with whom the association of Bhutto (according to him in an very concise and comprehensible interview with Talat Hussain; Aaj TV; he said “the Bhutto is not a name or a caste but a phenomenon and is inexplainable that makes you hold on to a car that is about to be blown to pieces”) is very obvious.

I recount the time I read a book by George Orwell(Animal farm) in which animals revolt and take over a farm and and the pigs take control of the activities and then later on ultimately the revolution falls into the wrong hands and these pigs start interacting with the humans from whom the revolt took in the first place.

I couldn’t help but remember a time in it when Orwell describes the pigs being protected by a larger number of wild dogs who were fed very little and they (the pigs) never left the den without these dogs, a requirement for the safety of the pigs.

“…there was a terrible baying sound outside and nine enormous dogs wearing brass studded collars came bounding into the farm…Silent and terrified, the animals crept back into the barn, in a moment the dogs came bounding back…though not yet full grown, they were huge dogs, and as fierce looking as wolves. They kept close to Napoleon…”

Who were they trying to scare? the normal public or the terrorists who who cant even touch their blast proof cars?

The former Minster for Industry whose cases have all today been taken back or finished, his involvement in the murder of his brother in law the son of whose party he now leads, is not yet out of question, goes around like the father of the nation.

Today, when Nawaz Sharif talks of upholding Judiciary, when his own record with respect to the Chief of justice and the Institution is not exactly shining, anything can happen.

Let’s hope that Animals don’t take over…or should they?

-peace

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