The response of the political leaders, the government and civil society as a whole to the country’s worst-ever natural disaster has been both delayed and mean. It is a kind of save-Pakistan-from-itself situation. Even the army that comes to the people’s rescue when the civil administration falters or fails was late this time in coming [...]
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Saving Pakistan from itself
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The price for Birmingham
President Asif Ali Zardari entered the record books being the first ever Pakistani Head of State, and the third after ex-US President George Bush and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, to join the ‘Exclusive Shoe Club’. All the three leaders faced shoes hurled at them by angry participants in a public gathering. Bush was humiliated by [...]
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It’s ‘Cable’ who did it
No matter what you say, I kind of feel sorry for my government. And before you start hurling your shoes at me, and I start blaming Geo TV in turn, please just look at these people. Our president doesn’t know what a flood is and our information minister has shoe blindness. The president’s spokespersons have [...]
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ZA Bhutto on ‘shoes’
While he was addressing a public rally in Lahore in the early 1970s, some of the audience in the stands flashed their shoes at Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was in his usual best at the podium. At this Bhutto quickly changed tack: “Yes, yes, I know, I know. Shoes have gone expensive, the [...]
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The police encourage Muslims to throw shoes at them? Just what community relations needed The police encourage Muslims to throw shoes at them? Just what community relations needed
The most jaw-dropping story of the weekend, I reckon, was the report that Scotland Yard have bowed to Islamic sensibilities and accepted that Muslims are entitled to throw shoes in ritual protest – which (as The Sunday Times put it) “could have the unintended consequence of politicians or the police being hit”. As it happens, [...]
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