The manner in which a very large part of our media played up the ‘story’ of an Israeli plane landing in Islamabad mysteriously and staying there for almost ten hours, is quite unmistakably indicative of the growing deprivation in the area of rational responsibility on the part of those in the world of communications who happen to be playing the role of the shapers of the mindset of those watching and listening to them.
This ‘fictional’ report was based on a tweet posted by an Israeli journalist. And I had the feeling that ‘some interested quarters’ in our country jumped at this opportunity to strengthen the hands of Maulana Fazal ur Rahman whose political propaganda against Imran Khan has remained focused on one line. “He is here to serve the Jewish cause.”
I have never accused Maulana Fazal of being a traitor. But traitors don’t have to grow horns alongwith beards inorder to earn recognition in that area.
The crusading spirit with which the thoroughly humiliated and humbled Maulana is engaged in a futile exercise to destabilize the country at this juncture when it is facing an invasion of problems, does not tell a pleasant story. Thrown out of the corridors of power for the first time in his career and having become totally irrelevant in the context of the current national scene, the fuming Maulana is increasingly bringing to my mind Goethe’s Faust and Marlowe’s Dr Faustus.
Faust sold his soul to Mephistopheles (Satan) for the kiss of Helen.
Fazal’s tragedy is that Helen has vehemently told Mephistopheles:
“NO—Not this phoney clergy.”
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