Nelson Mandela has named his autobiography The Lengthy Stroll To Freedom. We’ve got acquired a (self-appointed) holder of the franchise in Fawad Chaudhry, who mentioned about his arrest again in January in a sedition case registered due to the threats he’s mentioned to have made in opposition to the ECP Chairman, that Nelson Mandela was additionally arrested.
After all, Mandela did 27 years in jail. ‘Nelson’ Chaudhry didn’t do 27 days in jail, although he did greater than 27 hours, and that ought to depend.
Fawad Chaudhry seems to be extra like Billy Bunter than Mandela. Mandela seemed like an abstemious man Chaudhry seems to be like somebody who has been positioned on a weight loss plan, however who refuses to cease indulging in baked items and processed meals. He seems to be like a hearty trencherman, who doesn’t stint on the candy. He seems to be like somebody who has purchased joggers, however has by no means worn them greater than as soon as.
He seems to be like somebody who may give Billy Bunter a run for his cash in any consuming contest. One wouldn’t assume it, however Billy Bunter can run when he has to.
And so can Fawad Chaudhry. The entire nation may keep in mind his well-known bolt again into the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom just lately, when he was nonetheless very a lot within the PTI, when he noticed the police social gathering which had come to arrest him. Although he didn’t have far to go, he collapsed from breathlessness and needed to be helped again to the courtroom the place he was given refuge.
What ‘Nelson’ confirmed was what is called a durhak. That may be a bolt of an animal when it’s startled. It’s definitely not as deliberate as a stroll, Which is what the unique Nelson Mandela took in the direction of freedom. Our Nelson, then again, bolted.
Did anybody know then that the bolt was truly away from the PTI, in the direction of the IPP. After all, our Nelson is forward in quite a lot of respects. Mandela remained loyal to the African Nationwide Congress, his social gathering, which nonetheless exists. Our Nelson collects events. He’s been within the PPP, the PML(Q), the PTI, earlier than he landed within the IPP. He has not carried out the spherical of all events, not having been within the PML(N), the JUI(F), the JUP or the TLP. It may appear that he too secular to affix one of many non secular events, but when the appropriate folks inform each him and the social gathering, count on to see him within the Jamaat-e-Islami. Mandela didn’t face any such temptations from BOSS (Bureau Of State Safety, because the South African spy company was known as).
Probably the most essential benefit that our Nelson has is that durhak. The unique (or fairly first draft, or being an improved model) by no means went anyplace besides at a leisurely stroll. The journey to freedom was lengthy, nevertheless it was lined in a stroll. ‘Nelson’ Chaudhry bolted to freedom.
I see that the PPP acquired Murtaza Wahab elected Mayor of Karachi. That is the primary time the PPP has acquired maintain of the publish. After all, the credit score ought to go to Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah, who made certain he wouldn’t find yourself in opposition in his personal capital. Wahab solely gained as a result of the PTI councillors didn’t flip as much as vote for the Jamaat-e-Islami candidate, as that they had agreed. Regardless of the motive, Murad Ali Shah ought to take the credit score. In any other case Imran will, saying that it was a kind of U-turns which is the mark of an awesome chief. The PTI councillors most likely didn’t keep away due to their very own U-turn, however due to Murad Ali Shah’s persuasive powers. I additionally discover that the PTI collapsed everywhere in the nation after June 9, and nowhere greater than in Karachi. It’s doable that the PTI tried to promote the Jamaat (whose Karachi nazim was working for Mayor) a pup, and all these councillors are all underground, during which case Murad Ali Shah had nothing to do.
In the meantime, the brand new Mayor was fortunate sufficient that the Cyclone Biparjoy didn’t wreak the destruction that it was feared it might, and the preliminary destruction was restricted to the adjoining elements of India. Properly, it’s maybe fortunate that Modi shouldn’t be accusing Murtaza Wahab of diverting the cyclone to his house state. The Cyclone was assigned a Bengali title that means calamity. Jogs my memory of the 1970 Bhola cyclone in East Pakistan, which was the worst ever humanitarian catastrophe in Pakistan, with anyplace from 3000,000 to 500,000 useless. The Yahya authorities’s response was not nice, and the Awami League exploited the difficulty efficiently within the elections after a month. Properly, seems to be like this cyclone didn’t deliver the seeds of a secession.