THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IMPORTANT
It may not be a purely Pakistani obsession, but we are terribly good at at the whole VIP thing. Pakistani citizens face the wrath of VIP movements almost as often as bowel movements in their daily lives depending on how much roughage they consume, and the latter being far less productive than the former. Yet...
THE STATE & FORCED PHILANTHROPHY
In 1980, Dictator Zia-ul-Haque passed the Zakat and Ashar Ordinance of 1980 which mandates that 2.5 percent of all declared income shall be taxed by the State and placed into the Bait-ul-Maal. This made Pakistan the second Muslim country in the world after Saudi Arabia where Zakat is mandatory; the difference being that in Saudi...
OPERATION KURSI BACHAO
General Sahib and his pets have launched Operation Kursi Bachao with an urgency which would put the desperate veterans of Dunkirk to shame. The “strategy” is to launch a three-pronged thrust to retain power, and talk to just about everybody to see who’ll cut the best deal. The Benazir Bhutto/General Musharraf duo which is being...
