Those who have Sinned
Remember the recent critique of a Big Boy when he held forth to an assembly of his peers, pinpointing all that is wrong with those who have Sinned? When the media picked it up and splashed it as the sensation it was, The Boys’ spokesman became anxious and began calling the channels to play it down. It was feared that the Big Boy’s critique might be seen as a leap too far, verging on interference in the business of government.
Chillingly random
When a notorious sectarian terrorist was caught in the Punjab and interrogated, a chilling pattern of random attacks emerged. It appeared that the terrorist was a wealthy, if uneducated, member of Lahore’s urban propertied classes. He worked a regular day from 9 am to 5 pm. He watched television obsessively from 7 pm to 11 pm. And that’s where he picked one of his victims. A television anchor attracted his ire because he spoke regularly of the need to separate church and state. A neighbour attracted his ire because he was from a sect other than his own. A teacher got slaughtered because he did not denounce Shiaism when provoked by a student. What emerged was a picture of a psychopath on a killing spree, chilling in its randomness.
Pillar of strength
At a hearing of the Judicial Commission, The Great Khan’s lawyer began a stern inquisition of this paper’s editor and former caretaker CM Punjab. The latter turned to their lordships and revealed that the same eminent lawyer had been a “pillar of strength” for him when he was imprisoned by The Man of Steel in 1999. The lawyer, fearing The Khan’s ire, swiftly informed their lordships that ZAB’s 1970s government, of which he was a member, had also imprisoned TFT’s editor. In other words, he was no friend of TFT’s editor! But their lordships were unconvinced, as was evidenced by their broad smiles.