Sublime to ridiculous
Readers will not have forgotten the Make Doom of Multan’s apparently inexplicable and public tirade against the Holy Land and its rulers. Given that the Make Doom is Pakistan’s Eff Emm, and utterly obedient to the Powers-That-Be, he cannot have gone off the handle without his handlers’ permission. On investigation, it appears that Al-King and Al-Brince wanted The Great Khan’s special allegiance, to the exclusion of everyone else. That The Khan and his patrons were not prepared to do, given Al-Brince’s reluctance to annoy the Lalas by protesting about human rights violations in the Valley.
But as in most things in our part of the world, there are sublime reasons for quarrels, and then there are ridiculous ones too. Our mole reports that one of the ridiculous reasons for Al-King and Al-Brince’s ire against The Great Khan, is the broadcasting in Pakistan of the Turkish historical television serial “Diriliş: Ertuğrul” or “Resurrection: Ertuğrul”, given the Holy Land’s rivalry with the Sultan of the Sublime Porte.
The storyline revolves around the life of Ertugrul, the warrior son of the leader of the nomadic Kayi tribe of Turkmen. The hero, out on a hunt, rescues three people and thereby hangs the tale. The arrival of the three creates endless trouble and finding a new home for the tribe where they can live peacefully, leads to the foundation of the Ottomon Empire.
Apart from this irritant, apparently Al-Brince would make “unreasonable demands” on The Khan’s government and the latter would complain to his handlers. Everyone was pretty much at the end of their tether when it all went south with the Eff Emm’s statement.
Fragrance of Tears
A lifelong friend of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed, Victoria Schofield, has written her memoir of their friendship. “The Fragrance of Tears” is to be published in the United Kingdom in mid-October and reportedly contains a lot of hitherto unknown personal detail about BB Shaheed’s life. Schofield says, for example, that for a long time Benazir and other members of the Bhutto family thought “it was all a dreadful nightmare” and that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, BB’s father, would soon be released from prison to “resume his political role”. But it was not to be. After his hanging in 1979, BB had no option but to take on the mantle of leader.