Do you, dear reader, think I should see a shrink? Or should I see a movie? Or should I see red? Or better still, should I see beyond my nose?
Because if proof were needed of the aptness of my nom de plume, here it is: I married in haste, repented at leisure (twice), then I set out to change Pakistan (which I shouldn’t have attempted because I’m a mouthpiece of the status quo), then Benazir Bhutto was assassinated and the PPP died with her, leaving a gap for me. As they say on the London Underground “Mind The Gap”; I should’ve minded the gap but I didn’t and stepped into the vacuum.
Then I got swept up by the vacuum cleaner and was cajoled into doing a dharna to oust Nawaz Sharif’s government last year. Standing atop my container looking at all those delirious young supporters and supportresses, I lost my head (not that I have one) and said revealing and embarrassing things about “the umpire” who was supposed to give Nawaz “out”. But the umpire had second thoughts and wouldn’t give him out.
Then I had a joint session with my core committee and came out with that howler about civil disobedience. Ah yes, the list of my follies and foibles is endless. After the abortive dharna, I sacked Omar Cheema and Javed Hashmi. More recently I’ve sacked Justice (retd) Wajihuddin. And yet more recently, I’ve sacked Reham.
All these people were politicized so they had to be sacked. There’s only place for non-politicized people like myself if the PTI. Or for turncoats. It’s another matter that tomorrow I may reinstate all of the above because I am after all, a Master Of The U-Turn.
Reham will be allowed back in at great public insistence and not because she’s my wife. Justice Wajih will not be allowed in at great pubic insistence because he’s not my wife.
And now I would like to say something about Nawaz Sharif. I think he should resign. You may have heard this before. But I have to repeat it ad nauseam lest I take a U-Turn on this two.
Because if proof were needed of the aptness of my nom de plume, here it is: I married in haste, repented at leisure (twice), then I set out to change Pakistan (which I shouldn’t have attempted because I’m a mouthpiece of the status quo), then Benazir Bhutto was assassinated and the PPP died with her, leaving a gap for me. As they say on the London Underground “Mind The Gap”; I should’ve minded the gap but I didn’t and stepped into the vacuum.
Then I got swept up by the vacuum cleaner and was cajoled into doing a dharna to oust Nawaz Sharif’s government last year. Standing atop my container looking at all those delirious young supporters and supportresses, I lost my head (not that I have one) and said revealing and embarrassing things about “the umpire” who was supposed to give Nawaz “out”. But the umpire had second thoughts and wouldn’t give him out.
Then I had a joint session with my core committee and came out with that howler about civil disobedience. Ah yes, the list of my follies and foibles is endless. After the abortive dharna, I sacked Omar Cheema and Javed Hashmi. More recently I’ve sacked Justice (retd) Wajihuddin. And yet more recently, I’ve sacked Reham.
All these people were politicized so they had to be sacked. There’s only place for non-politicized people like myself if the PTI. Or for turncoats. It’s another matter that tomorrow I may reinstate all of the above because I am after all, a Master Of The U-Turn.
Reham will be allowed back in at great public insistence and not because she’s my wife. Justice Wajih will not be allowed in at great pubic insistence because he’s not my wife.
And now I would like to say something about Nawaz Sharif. I think he should resign. You may have heard this before. But I have to repeat it ad nauseam lest I take a U-Turn on this two.
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