Horrified journo
Our mole in Bunny Gala informs us that a female foreign journo went to the house on the hill to interview The Great Khan. The Khan held forth for a considerable period of time, answered all the questions, and let rip some choice rants against The Man of Steel. He wasn’t done, and neither was the journo, when there was an interruption and he excused himself to attend to something urgent. He then told the journo that his wife would show her around the house while he attended to the emergency. So, the journo was taken on a tour of the house.
Imagine the modern, Western hackette’s consternation when she was told by The Great Khanum, also known as Her Holiness, that certain walls in the house spoke to her. We’d heard that walls have ears, but it now transpires that they have tongues too. Her Holiness gestured towards a blank white wall and told the journalist that the wall spoke to her on a regular basis. Apparently, she also said that she talked back to the wall. As if that wasn’t enough, the journo saw some raw meat lying on a terrace beyond a glass partition. “W-w-what’s that for?” asked the tremulous journalist, expecting the worst. And it wasn’t long in coming, for Her Holiness informed the horrified woman that the meat for was “the djinns who live in this house”.
Revelations
So, finally, some aspiring members of our National and Provincial Assemblies have been forced to reveal not only their assets but also their hitherto unacknowledged second marriages. There’s a section in candidates’ nomination papers that says “spouse” and then there are several sections left vacant – as if to give the appellant an opportunity to list all his spouses! Male politicos have had to reveal all lest they be excluded from the category of “Sadiq and Amin”. In two cases, it came as a complete shock to the first wife and family, and the politicos had to do some hectic damage control to keep it together, and to stop a wholesale familial revolt.