Thank you, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I don’t know what others may say, but I support Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for taking a rally out on Sunday and paralysing Karachi. We don’t spend Sundays at home; we spend it on frivolous activities like going to the beach, eating out and spending a few thousand rupees on indigestible food in one of the many restaurants which have sprung up over the past few years. 

This Sunday we stayed home and (besides saving a good amount of money), I found that my grandchildren have grown up without my noticing it. You see, every day they have already gone to school by the time I get out of bed, and when I return home at night they’re asleep. And on Sundays, as I said, we are usually out, my grandchildren with their parents, and the two of us on our own. So it was a pleasant surprise to find that both my grandchildren are fluent in two languages and are very good in mathematics (like I was at their age). This was a really good discovery which I would not have made if Bilawal Bhutto Zardari hadn’t decided to bring the city to a standstill.

Of course, staying at home meant that we went for a walk after a long time and came across a few of our neighbours for the first time and found out how nice and courteous they are. It was a pleasant surprise to find that there is a park nearby where (due to the rally) hundreds of people were enjoying the sea breeze for which Karachi is famous. After an hour-long walk, my wife and I were able to talk without shouting at each other, which is the norm whenever we return home late every Sunday evening.

Of course, some misguided people are complaining that due to the complete blockage of roads, a few were not able to get to the airport and missed their flights, while others who needed urgent medical attention couldn’t be taken to hospitals, and so had to die and couldn’t be buried until the next morning. Oh well, people miss their flights every now and then and some deaths do occur due to traffic jams, so why are they complaining? Anyone who isn’t comfortable with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari taking out rallies and making life pleasant for people like me is probably an enemy agent and shouldn’t be living in Pakistan anyway. So I am with you, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari; go ahead, hold rallies every Sunday – it’ll make you very popular and win your party all the seats in Karachi in the next elections.