The news of reshuffle in the Federal Cabinet keeps making headlines in the media so frequently that the boss of the Ministry of Information should by now have got tired of forcefully denying it as sheer rumour-mongering. The burden of these denials falls of Fawad on Chaudhry for two reasons—(a) he is the Information Minister and (b) he is frequently mentioned as the key cabinet member to be given some more suitable portfolio.
It so happens that being the Information Minister has its advantages. You are always making headlines in the media. You are the one who tells the Nation what the government is doing for you and what it is planning to do. And you become the only certain cabinet member to be wooed by the media personalities, including the channel-owners.
There is no doubt that in the present cabinet, no one else has better credentials for the job than the openly flamboyant and subtly sarcastic Chaudhry from Jhelum, the land of the warriors.
Yet there is a viewpoint that it is time that the government should get out of the Election Mode, and find more subtle and sweet words in its denunciation of the Opposition.
The Opposition in Pakistan has only one job to do—-to grab every opportunity to hit at the vitals of the government. The government on the other hand has to try to concentrate more heavily on the tasks related to the promises it has made to the Nation.
In Pakistan, tragically, all the civil governments since the Zia’s plane was blown up in the air, have been in the WAR ZONE— trying to block the punches thrown below the belt, and seeking to hit back with vengeance.
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