Will a maverick be the PPP’s messiah?

Dr Haider Mehdi
The evening of November 9 was a tumultuous affair: full of excitement, revelations, astounding robust thrills, political reverberations, media resonance and the restrained admittance of a messiah-in-the-making by a resurgence of political association between once friends and recent foes. The few hours of the evening seemed like creating history for Pakistan.
In Abu Dhabi’s fabulous cricket stadium, Muhammad Aamar and Saeed Ajmal were making grand cricket history and every cricket lover everywhere in the world sat on the razor’s edge watching the inherently delightful and ebullient epilogue of the gentlemen’s game. Cricket was at its best - the excitement extempore.
During a talk show on a Pakistani TV channel, the Pakistan Peoples’ Party’s participant was making a mind-boggling statement: there was no pireshani (perplexity, confusion, embarrassment, perturbation, worry), none whatsoever, absolutely none at the highest levels of the Party’s leadership on the prevailing state of affairs in the country. Everything was “hunky dory” in absolute earnest for Pakistan and its increasingly impoverished people (including the lethal bombardments of its own territory by its national army). While a well known anchor of another programme, aired three days a week, was racking his brains to get straight answers on the future implications of the now dead and buried NRO.
Moreover, Pervez Musharraf shamelessly and blatantly was using “un-parliamentary” language for the sitting President of Pakistan.
Fauzia Wahab, the PPP stalwart and an apologist for Asif Ali Zadari, was meritlessly and gracelessly defending her already discredited boss.
Many other eminent journalists, meanwhile, were demanding the President’s head - along with his political-financial collaborators.
The news of Imran Khan’s surgery were being aired on TV channels.
Also being discussed on several talk shows was Seymour Hersh’s gallant disclosure of American intentions for Pakistan’s nuclear assets in his revealing article entitled Defending the Arsenal.