This is soooo Pakistan.

What a week we have had so far. First there were hooligans who interrupted the provincial assembly session, the next day they attacked the former chief minister of Sind (I personally think that man deserved even more but the venue – Sind Assembly – was not appropriate). If that was not all, lawyers beat the crap out of another former minister (this time a federal minister) which triggered another spot of violence in Mianwali and Karachi which killed 9 people in Karachi. Among other things, Talibaan reappeared in Swat and were seen roaming the streets.
ICC committee probing the corruption allegation raised by the enfant terrible of Pakistani cricket, Shoaib Akhtar, met with a few cricketers to check the validity of Shoaib’s accusations. Attorney General Malik Qayyum met Altaf Hussien in London, and Aitezaz Ahsan’s resignation/no resignation saga continued. MMA leaders met with Sharif brothers and MPAs of Punjab Assembly took oath in the first session of the current assembly. Qaim Ali Shah, the CM of Sind, reshuffled all the senior police officials in a way that most of the police walahs did not know who was reporting to whom which further added to the commotion.

There was so much news generation that journalists were running helter skelter all over the country. The news channels were showing simultaneous press briefs in split screens – something we have never witnessed before. Ms. Sherry Rehman and Ishaq Darr were talking to media in Islamabad, while Farooq Sattar and Shehbaz Sharif engaged the journalists in Karachi and Lahore respectively.

There was so much news to capture and digest that people forgot to notice that Zardari sahib managed to get acquittal from yet another case, this time it was Murtaza Bhutto murder case. And what were the custodians of the country doing all this time? The President, along with Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Ahmed Mukhtar – the Service Cheetah – is leaving for China and the PM is keeping a low profile amidst all this chaos.
This is soooo Pakistan.