Straight Talk - Remembering Home

'I Received a rather disappointing response. Twenty four did not respond. 'Brather' Jehangir Bader was the only one who had the courtesy to respond, but adamantly insisted that a PPP leader could never be so irresponsible to violate the law so blatantly'.

According to Naeem, he had an encounter of a strange kind with the Hon. Minister on Tammy Haq's talk show. The discussion had been around the restoration of judges, but it seems that it was: 'completely overshadowed by the high decibel endless ramblings of the Sindh Law Minister'.

'As we walked down the stairs, we noticed that the minister was being increasingly surrounded by his coterie of guards, etc. and the minister's truck-size Prado, as expected, had two large-size flags. As also expected, it did not have the number plate'.

When Naeem told the minister that being the top law officer of the province, he was doing an irresponsible and illegal act of driving around without a number plate. 'But I am standing out and still not inside the car", came the prompt and ludicrously illogical response of the law minister'.

'I politely told him that he had arrived in the Prado without the number plate and would be departing in the same vehicle. This time he came up with yet another masterpiece, "the car has a number plate in the front, and only the rear number plate is missing". The honourable law minister then sat in his official Prado and merrily drove off with the missing number plate'. Such is the 'Rule of Law' in Pakistan, with one law for you and one law for me.

Tread softly and stay safe dear friend, as these are uncertain times, where heroes and villains are constantly changing places and it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. But quoting Nelson Mandela, as you have, let me also do the same: "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear". So be it and as they say, 'Que sera, sera, what ever will be, will be, the future is not ours to see'.

H. Maker. (email; trust@super.net.pk)