So the 9th SAF Games r being held in Islamabad!
Ya, at last. After a delay of four years.
Do u know that they r scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in 2004.
Ya, one neighbour delayed them for four years, and the other neighbour forgot its turn in favour of Pakistan.
So the authorities have got ample time to arrange for the event.
Have u been to the opening ceremony?
Are u mad?
Meaning?
Am an ordinary person. Can't afford to purchase the Rs 500 ticket for Rs 2000.
Very bad as u were always wanted to go being an athlete yourself.
Don't be so sad.
I had been to the full dress rehearsal on 27th March 2004.
Great! Must have enjoyed.
Ya, but it was an experience in itself.
Meaning?
Even on free day for public, the public was not free for entry and seating of their own choice.
I didn't get u?
The public was allowed to enter free after all the security checks but not free to sit as per their choice.
Really?
The programme started late by one hour as few innocent people sat on the red chairs.
Then?
The announcement was made thrice in English and urdu that "the people sitting on red chairs other than service men and brigadier families, should immediately leave the red chairs and move on to green chairs".
Are u joking?
No, but I felt very strange when I heard the announcement.
Ya, sounds humiliating.
Have u read in papers about the mismanagement on the real opening ceremony on 29thMarch 2004.
No what happened?
Nothing big as such incidents are getting common these days.
Will u tell in simple words?
It was reported in a wide circulated daily that Maj Nadeem was trying to force his way through the exit gate when ASI Mohammad Aslam stopped him.
Really? He tried to stop an army man?
However, the army officer accelerated his car and hit the police man.
Then?
Nothing!
The injured ASI was shifted to the Federal Hospital.
Am afraid what impression it leaves on people's mind.
That the army is above everyone.
One should choose to join army at an early age instead of wasting precious years in getting professional education.
U need not to be an army man yourself, its equally good if u r son of an army man.
U sound quite frustrated?
Me?
Ya!
No my dear , this time I was talking for MMA.
MMA?
What MMA has to do with army men or son of an army man?
My dear, r u not aware of the recent expansion in the cabinet?
Yes, two more ministers are added in the Federal Cabinet.
Ya, I know that.
Do u know that this is the first time the Parliament has vast majority of religious representatives.
Ya, but we were talking about expansion in the cabinet!
Ya, am referring to the Minister for Religious Affairs who is not representative of the religious parties.
Lets wait for the reaction of religious parties for a religious minister without beard.
My dear, he may be without the beard but he has the requisite background. What if he has a single member party ally of the treasury benches.