Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Believe it or not, but when the calamity of the Coronavirus first broke on the world stage, and Pakistan began to think like everyone else of a lockdown, The Great Khan was obsessed with a different thought. Our mole says he was consumed by the idea that the virus outbreak would give the courts an excuse to give bail to MSR, the imprisoned editor-owner of the Jang-GEO Group. We hear The Great Khan burnt a considerable amount of midnight oil insuring that didn’t happen. OCD?
A la Bhutto
The Anglo-American poet and Nobel Laureate TS Eliot famously wrote: “We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time…”
This is too sublime a thought to describe what is afoot in Isbad, but it reminds one of the repetitions of history that are taking place these days. It is said that behind the IPPs’ saga was a plan to nationalize the power producing companies a la Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s famous putsch of 1972. It was suggested to The Great Khan that this was one way of getting rid of the circular debt that keeps haunting Pakistan, and another of playing the populist card. Echoes of Bhutto again, and the move that crippled Pakistan’s incipient industrialization forever. Lest we forget, this will set off another round of international arbitration, a la the Reko Diq affair at the conclusion of which Pakistan was slapped with a fine of US $ 6 billion.
It now appears that The Khan is thinking twice about this, having been “discouraged” from making this move – possibly by his Uncle Sam.
Private party
A chartered flight from Is-bad, some beautiful young people on board, including a hefty influential, and off to an Emirate in lockdown for a very private party. Guess who all were on board?