Partly Facetious: woman MNA's ire on not being photographed

21 Aug, 2007

"Musharraf says he is firm about wiping out terror."
"It's been quite a while...over six years now..."
"If the Bush administration has not succeeded with all its might, its bark and bite, then how do you accept Musharraf, a referendumed President, to succeed?"
"That's true but you need time and you need resources and you need long term education of these tribals and you need..."
"None of which the US or Musharraf is investing in. They are just trying to kill them all."
"I agree this strategy is not working - our soldiers are dying but somehow the terrorists seem to become stronger if anything."
"They have the fuel that is keeping the fire of militancy burning."
"What is the fuel?"
"Think our foreign policy. Think when Rice snaps her fingers, someone jumps!"
"I bet you anything if you are given the power to dictate our foreign policy you would do no different."
"Perhaps you are right."
"I am right."
"Let the National Assembly discuss this weighty issue..."
"They are discussing a weightier issue."
"What? The economy..."
"No"
"Kashmir?"
"No, the honourable member from the Maulana party, appropriately clad in a burqa, has registered her anger at not having the picture of her and her colleagues taken as members of Parliament..."
"What did the government say to that blasphemy?"
"That they would gladly take their pictures if there was a way to distinguish between them."
"Ah yes - a burqa can fool quite a few."

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