Life cycle of a PPP
From the Blog PkColumnist.com: Life cycle of a PPP - Just as I was thinking that nothing new happens around here anymore, three very new things happened in three consecutive days. On Saturday the PM gave us a deadline for an end to loadshedding, on Sunday he stopped seeing corruption in his government, and on Monday his party discovered that the Q for Qatil League was much better than the N for Non-Qatil League. While this journey from delusion to blindness to the outright fantastic took only three days to run its course, yet it very aptly summed up the life cycle of a typical PPP (read Pakistani Politician in Power). There was a time when the acronym PPP actually stood for a political party called the Pakistan People's Party. Things changed in the spirit of reconciliation, and now it has been officially known that PPP stands for a thing called Pervez Musharraf and Pervez Elahi's Party. Initially they tried to fit in Altaf Hussain as well, but then eventually had to let him go because no matter how they tried to spell his name, they couldn't find a single P in there. Such are the rules of the game called politics. In my humble opinion only if Imran Khan could be convinced to call his party Oxford Tehreek-e-Insaaf instead of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, then all the political parties starting with alphabets L to alphabet P could unite to found a comprehensive LMNOPQ party. Not only would this solve all the P-related problems of the country, but it would also allow our politicians to save face, no matter which way the political winds blew. But the inherent flaws in this suggestion are that A) Imran Khan is not interested in an LMNOPQ party, and B) Our politicians are not interested in saving face. Coming back to the three new things happening in the three consecutive days, I think somebody needs to tell the prime minister that he should quit announcing to the people that the power outages would end before the PPP exits power. The first reason for this is that nobody knows when the PPP would exit power. What if it takes eleven years for that to happen, or what if it never happens? So does that mean that it would take eleven years for the loadshedding to end or worst still, does that mean that the end of loadshedding might never happen? Secondly I think it's high time that somebody should also tell the prime minister that ever since Saturday officially became a holiday, there is a very strong possibility that ordinary Pakistanis don't want the power outages to end any time soon. We have suffered enough blackouts to have grown a thick skin, and since the summer is over and the fans are not needed, loadshedding is nothing but an excellent excuse to enjoy two holidays, to miss all the work-related deadlines, to act lethargic all day long, and last but not the least, to wear unironed clothes to work in the morning. So if we weigh the odds in our indigenous context then loadshedding is now officially part of our culture, and culture should not be destroyed on the mere whims of some PPPs (Pakistani Politicians in Power). So instead of depriving us of the two weekly holidays I think what the PM should do, is to run around his mansion and find himself a pair of glasses. Because apparently, since he cannot see the corruption in his government, then he probably cannot see much else either. Forget about the Transparency International report and Pakistan's place on its corruption index. If he could just see some of the other P's like RPP (Rental Power Plants), PIA, PSO, PEPCO, NBP etc, then not only would it hit home where his heart is, but it would also make running around the mansion and finding the glasses a pretty worthwhile activity. Plus you never know it might lead to something new on the fourth consecutive day. . Read Full Post
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