Isn’t it amazing when these leaders adjust the watts according to their ‘power thresholds!’
KARACHI: We, as citizens of Pakistan, are forced to witness the grand show of the chameleon circus on May 11. On other side, we can wish for a magical genie to save us from our endless miseries.
With serious threats to our national security and uncontrolled chaos at every corner, the least we can demand is a peaceful Sunday to gather our senses to face the gruesome week ahead. But on the coming Sunday, the political Pandora’s box is ready to open and steal the show and we can just wait and watch the chameleons putting up masks to conceal their true faces.
The good news by Hamza Shahbaz is that on May 11 there will be no load-shedding. Isn’t it amazing when these leaders adjust the watts according to their ‘power thresholds!’
Former President Asif Ali Zardari came to the rescue in the ‘name of democracy’ and said that his party will not favour the protests, which can ring military bells in the civilians’ mind. I will, indeed, praise his political wisdom for saying, “Though we oppose the rigging, we still accept the government’s mandate in the name of democracy!” Now I can see how Zardari steered his full five-year democratic term.
Playing poorly with the hearts of disheartened youth, the two great chameleons, Canadian Captain and British Captain, are surely to move only paid workers on roads. The hearts are extinguished already — with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s ‘no change’ performance while Tahirul Qadri was seated inside the container to leave public to the nature’s mercy — has left no hope in the minds of the wise!
From containers hidden out at some place in the Margalla Hills, Tahirul Qadri shall flash the ‘white paper’ on which the manifesto would be written by some invisible hand. On the other hand, Imran Khan will be sending a ‘white paper’ back to the pavilion in London billed as a hospital donation. Both want to play the ringmaster role of chameleon circus at the chowk or off the chowk. But the fact remains that the public in general is disoriented from both of them.
May 11 will pass and another day will start! No protests can offer relief to the common man’s predicament.
Kanwal Abdi
Published in The Express Tribune, May 10th, 2014.
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