A matter of faith
October 3, 2008 India's Minister of Railway, Lal Bahadur Shastri, who later went on to became prime minister of his country, resigned once because of a tragic train- accident. But he was a non-Muslim minister of the Indian government, not a Pakistani Muslim minister who simply wouldn't have the guts to take responsibility for the security lapse at Marriott Hotel. -MIR TABASSUM MAIRAJ, Islamabad, via e-mail, September 20.
