9 days of the state of emergency in the country and doesn’t make any difference to the common man… well yes that’s true, a common man has nothing to do with it as long as he is getting the daily bread and butter and why would he has anything to do with it. All this rat race between the political parties and army is just for fun sake for the people who always want to have something happening in their lives, because they have nothing else to worry about, they have enough money in their bank accounts, their children are studying abroad and they have more than what it takes to live a simple subtle life. So end of the day when they see how boring the life has become for them they start something to have fun, to make themselves feel that they are alive and to tell people that they exist.

2007 has been the most happening year not only for Pakistan itself but also for the world to see what worse could be done to a country that has everything. That reminds me of a comment of a French tourist who came to Pakistan for the first time and while we were on a trip to Faisalabad on the motorway she exclaimed with joy and surprise ‘you know Pakistan has everything, the lands, the mountains, the sea, the desert, the fields, the roads, the cities everything, I wonder what makes you the country of third world’!!! Ahh my poor friend. Never having the profound knowledge of Pakistan’s political history couldn’t figure out that we lack nothing rather we exceed. We exceed in hypocrisy, we exceed in sucking blood of the common man, we exceed in the abilities how to ruin this beautiful land and to ruin it up to an extent where there would be no fields, no waters, no mines, no roads, but bloodshed…

We Pakistani are…what a fate we have as being Pakistanis. The world looks at us as the terrorists, as the most dangerous country, a land where life is so worthless. What are we fighting on, what we need to have at the end of the day, what are we up to, what kind of a country it is to handover to the next generation.

Last seven years what ever happened in Pakistan is something, which will definitely be transferred to the new generation as a story full of awe, fear, hatred and resentment. Would it be a part of the textbooks of Pakistan studies? But then again if not still it will be transferred, the point is all this resentment will appear in the new generation against their very own country, is this what we are fighting for?

Being a part of the media I have this privilege to watch every channel whether its banned or not at my office. And what I watch on the television makes me think of all this aforementioned. People call us and ask what’s the news because they say they feel cut off, taken aback, left alone and what ever we tell them is something which is nothing but a worthless piece of shit.

One of my ‘trade partners’ a senior journalist talked to me today and said your BB is in Lahore, and I said yeah why Lahore should remain silent without the chaos of suicide bombings and bloodsheds. Honestly speaking, I am not a senior who could give an analysis or something about the situation in the light of all my life’s experiences and studies, but during last 4 years of my journalistic ventures I feel myself quite comfortable saying that all this is an awesome time pass for the richest and spicy for a common man who is all day busy and concerned about his every day living but in the evening when he comes back home he needs some entertainment full of thrill, drama and comedy.



Nukhbat/2007