Thank you, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
By Shakir Lakhani Published: October 17, 2016
Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto
Zardari waves to his supporters during a party rally in Karachi on Sunday
October 16, 2016. PHOTO: Rashid Ajmeri / EXPRESS
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.
Engineer, former visiting lecturer at NED Engineering College,
industrialist, associated with petroleum/chemical industries for many years.
Loves writing, and (in the opinion of most of those who know him), mentally
unbalanced. He tweets @shakirlakhani (twitter.com/shakirlakhani)
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