Waheeda Shah of the Pakistan People’s Party has been disqualified from contesting the election for two years after she slapped two polling officials during a by-election.
She reminds me of a true incident. A friend’s paternal uncle (taya) was suffering from a serious ailment and doctors had told the family to take the patient home and pray for him. All family elders had gathered around the dying patient. He raised his shaking hand, summoning his younger brother (my friend’s father) near him. All the people present in the room silenced, sensing the emergency and increasing their earshot.
The dying man told his younger brother in a feeble voice, “Customs demand surviving brother to marry the widow of his deceased brother.” My friend’s father nodded, giving the impression that he has understood what his elder brother was saying at the most critical point of his life. The patient didn’t stop there. He breathed deeply as if gaining courage to say something and said, “My wife is a rude head-strong woman. Don’t commit the mistake which I committed and suffered for my whole life.”
The old man’s advice was funny enough to make all people in the room laugh, serious enough to dissuade his younger brother form marrying his wife and harsh enough for his would-be widow.
The vacancy Waheeda was contesting fell vacant after the death of her husband, Syed Mohsin Shah Bukhari. Unofficial result declared her the winner, but the ECP withheld the results following the slapping incident. What she did is condemnable. We can’t allow influential people to violate laws when common folks have to abide them.
I give credit for her disqualification to the media, whom I don’t like much, and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, for whom my reverence is declining rapidly.
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The dying man told his younger brother in a feeble voice, “Customs demand surviving brother to marry the widow of his deceased brother.” My friend’s father nodded, giving the impression that he has understood what his elder brother was saying at the most critical point of his life. The patient didn’t stop there. He breathed deeply as if gaining courage to say something and said, “My wife is a rude head-strong woman. Don’t commit the mistake which I committed and suffered for my whole life.”
The old man’s advice was funny enough to make all people in the room laugh, serious enough to dissuade his younger brother form marrying his wife and harsh enough for his would-be widow.
The vacancy Waheeda was contesting fell vacant after the death of her husband, Syed Mohsin Shah Bukhari. Unofficial result declared her the winner, but the ECP withheld the results following the slapping incident. What she did is condemnable. We can’t allow influential people to violate laws when common folks have to abide them.
I give credit for her disqualification to the media, whom I don’t like much, and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, for whom my reverence is declining rapidly.
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