Mob mentality?

Letter September 17, 2014
Shame on elite which chooses to see inappropriateness in reaction of frustrated passengers, not their unfair attitude

KARACHI: A television channel aired a programme on the night of September 16 to discuss the incident in which Rehman Malik was offloaded from the PIA flight. The PPP’s Qamar Zaman Kaira and sitting minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi both condemned the incident. One day, when the political elite face a fraction of the humiliation a common man faces every time he visits a government office or any other public facility — and they start whining that the reaction is of mob mentality and should not be encouraged. At once they remember how things should be done by the book.

Shame on our elite which chooses to see inappropriateness in the reaction of a group of frustrated passengers but not in their own unfair attitudes.

Asad Shairani

Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2014.

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