Two days ago, my aunt and cousins came over to my house for my sister’s birthday. When it was all over, I drove them back home.
On the way back, one of my cousins was talking to me about Eid-ul-Azha and goats and cows, “…I’m thinking about getting a goat this Eid…blah…not a cow…blah…not healthy…blah…too expensive…blah…you know, camel farting.”
“Camel Farting?“, I asked.
“Oh, sorry, sorry, Cattle Farming!”, he replied.
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Reminds of the days at the end of September when the presidential nomination forms were being submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan and Mr. Hamid Mir on Geo TV’s Capital Talk had a tongue slip. That day, lawyers had been protesting in all cities. Suddenly it was reported that the legs of the President of Peshawar High Court Bar Association had been broken by the police. Moreover, it was stated that it had happened because a Police armored car had run him over.
There were different guests on Capital Talk that day and one of them was obviously from PML-Q.Hamid Mir asked the guest, “The Prime Minister [Shaukat Aziz] has said that this day has been peaceful. Doesn’t he know that the PHCBA’s President’s legs have been broken?”
The guest replied, “He must not have heard about it yet!”
Hamid Mir: “So you’re saying our PM is unaware?”
Grabbing any moment to splash dirt on the face of a Pro-Musharraf guy, Hamid Mir quickly scored.
The next day I picked up Jang to find out more about this incident. Surprisingly, I found no reference to the PHCBA President in any of the papers, let alone his legs. I turned on the news but still couldn’t find such a report. No channel reported such an event, not even Hamid Mir’s own Geo News. It turned out that Mr. Hamid Mir, engulfed in the habit of ‘reporting it first’, had been the one who was actually unaware and had been dishonoring the PM from misinformation.
Moreover, the actual event had been that lawyers had set fire to that armored car and when the people in that armored car tried to escape to save their lives by driving it away, some lawyers got hurt.
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Yeah, I know I turned a family post into a political one but what the hell, when almost every blog is filled with political posts, why can’t I post a few? All the constant bickering about how the CJ is an angel from god here to save democracy really ticks me off and makes me want to do something about it.
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