Rage of Angels

You just ran into some of that Jinnah progeny! Count your blessings that you survived.

I have no doubt in my mind that the protest was one of the practice run for the inevitable Bastille Day. That day of reckonning and gloutines are inevitable.

`` They kept insisting we leave the car, he kept telling them what they were doing was wrong and they needed to go home and let us go about our business. Finally, one of the boys got tired of the argument and said “Theek hai, bolo Bush kutta hai hai (fine, say Bush is a dog)”, the constable looked at me, smiled ruefully and did as he was told upon which the boys cheered loudly and let us go. ``

Okay !!! Bush is a dog. Problems of all pakistanis are resolved. Hooray !!!
Is Urstruly happy now ?

This piece is a biggest load of arrogant crap. “Poor” youth, “disenfranchised” “working class” “day laborer” “unemployed” blah blah blah. Perhaps the problem is not those disenfranchised youth, but jokers running the country, and Mullahs brainwashing the youth, and who is to say that the so-called educated classes of Lahore are any less schumker. Really sad to read such a silly piece. Unless I missed something.

The policeman had guts. No question. I doubt if very many chowk warriors would have shown the same cool.

As for the author - with all due respect, you were misusing government cars, appropriating a government employees time to get your stuff out of dry port. This is Pakistan Where those ``unemployed youth`` can use some stupid cartoon as a pretext to curse an elected President (Bush), destroy property and thus put off potential investors who could employ them.

But the same ``unemployed youth`` are clueless when a repsresentive of those really screwing them - namely those who misuse their authority in Pakistan for personal welfare or gain- was right there standing before them!! The author himself.

well said tahmed

the day ought not be too far when the common man of this country realizes that the elite of this country spend more on 1 meal than the common man earns in a month (probably 3-4 months). when that gap in income is realized and properly understood, maybe some people will stand up againt this unjustice....till then.....``driver, ac tez karo``

What insisted you to find a `clearing agent` for a modest fee to get some legal work done?
Patience lacks in every class of our society. Blessed ones can pay clearing agents for their frustration over flawed system, but alienanted youth from poor localities craft other free of cost ways to express themselves.

#7 the system - which you call flawed - was created by the elite themselves to tkeep the great unwashed in check

Re: # 5

T Sahib, Policeman had NO right whatsoever to tell anyone to abide the law when he himself was involved in breaking it. Hashmi Sahibs of this world give up their right to criticize anyone when they themselves are accomplice to the mass mismanagement of our collective resources. That’s a grand scale larceny. At a minimum, his bureaucrat friend should be disciplined for providing public vehicle to his buddy for his private personal business. Hashmi Sahib is like a bank robber who complains about lack of airconditioning in the bank he is going to rob, or a shoplifter who sues the merchant for videoing him as that is violating his right to privacy. I hope that some Public Prosecutor is reading this article and taking appropriate action under the Pakistani laws.

Having said that, I sincerely hope that Hashmi Sahib had the decency to fill the tank up, or at least half of it.

mr hashmi
you don`t seem to have anything positive to say about pakistan, i wonder what made you return there , was it the prospect of having child servants for a pittance.
i`ve not seen any elite that has so much contempt for the poor as in pakistan

urstruly
revolution is not the answer, more later

Urstruly #10 You forgot to add that these are demonstrations taking place in mumbai. Not Pakistan. Within Pakistan, only terrorists accuse Musharaff of terrorism every time he goes after them in the tribal areas. Many Pakistanis, and the western world, merely see him as being too soft on terrorists.

I provided this clarification to keep the record straight, given that you forgot to describe the context of the picture.

Fully agreed, Kulharee jee on #9. I hope Mr. Hashmi realizes this as well, and tries to compensates the Pakistani public - not by filling up the gas tank though (since that will be misused again by his government-official friend), but by re-paying the Pakistani public directly for this theft.

I would suggest paying school fees for some poor kids. I think the gas costs of his one trip, plus misuse of police officer time and car driver time, plus lost revenue on import duty, should add up to costs of running an entire school in Pakistan for a significant period of time - around 2-3 months.

#6 agreed sir. hope you will second the suggestion to the writer in #13.

Tahmed32 and Kulharee you guys are missing the point here. The author was suggesting the following

(a) bloody hell, we set up the system and yet I have to pay
(b) why cannot the great unwashed be happy and learn their position in society?
(c) why cannot the system we created keep these prols at bay let me get on with life?

You need to get your perspective right here! Please change those glasses you all are wearing!

wasnt that unfair use of govt car? frankly, cars with green number plates only get scowls and hate remarks. they get away with breaaking traffic rules, their drivers are almost always discourteous and add nuisance to the roads. their attitude is simply that of outlaws. and the fact that the author had to borrow his friend`s car to get to his port hassle-free, also reinforces this. the corpses are beginning to stink already