The forlorn people of Pakistan should heave a sigh of relief at seeing their ailing Prime Minister back on his feet, ready to sprint and show to the world that nothing does it like a healthy love for power. And the term power I am using here is in a very positive sense— the very sense the beloved father of the most loving and caring daughter in the world Maryam Nawaz often uses— a boundless and undying desire to serve this country and her citizens. Of course there are some more useful and productive citizens than others— like Mian Mansha and the creed.
I am sure the ailing Abdul Sattar Edhi might have realized by now that power is a far more effective tool of serving the Nation than building bridges with the deprived, the needy and the despair-ridden.
The manner in which the brave Prime Minister came sprinting down the stairs of his hospital (credentials unknown) and jumped into the back seat of the waiting car, it seemed as if the family was leaving a hotel of its standard after celebrating the first anniversary of a successful open-heart surgery that could have orphaned the nation (God forbid).
But the open-heart surgery as we all know had taken place a week or so back and since then the nation had been bombarded with heart-warming health bulletins from the family-specially madam Maryam Nawaz. This was the first major and critical operation of a major (nuclear) nation on the earth on which not a single health bulletin by the doctors concerned was issued. To me personally it was quite painful that the British Prime Minister was so unconcerned that he didn’t bother to pay a single formal visit to the hospital to express his solidarity with the agonized people of Pakistan.
Is it a failure of our Foreign Office that the World leaders remained so gloriously aloof ?
Anyway it is a cause of great joy for the people of Pakistan that their beloved Prime Minister will soon be addressing huge public gatherings and telling the people that a country named Panama doesn’t even exist, and that it is a sinister fabrication of the sinister political foes who want the Engine of Pakistan’s progress derailed. (nothing to do with the engines of Saad Rafique’s Pakistan Railways!)
