Catchy line :hbk:
What is the situation of the city now? Has post election created a new divide between Posh areas and other parts of city.
Sher! Ik Vaari Fer! : The Friday Times Blogs
It was the day of the election.I had taken my motorbike to a workshop to get the oil changed. Here I had my first glimpse of the “change” that was said to be coming to Pakistan. Army vehicles were patrolling the bazaar, their machine guns and G3 rifles nakedly displayed. Two Punjab police vehicles were also with them and their revolving lights were flashing strangely in the daylight. The army and police were patrolling the constituencies of Lahore’s bigwig election candidates, apparently alert to the possibility of debacles.
An old man was sitting on a chair in the bazaar. He had a white beard and was wearing a white chadar-kameez, looking like the khateebof a mosque.
“Baba ji,” I asked him,“who is winning this election?”
“InshAllah Imran Khan,” he said without hesitation.
“Why, Baba ji?”
“Because he gave us a slogan about Change and Naya Pakistan.”
“How do you want to see Pakistan?”
“I want to see Pakistan with no concept of load-shedding, where educated people can get jobs and life essentials are easily available in the market. I want to see Pakistan like that.
“My son passed his graduation exam in 2008 and many times he passed the Punjab Public Services exam. But he was not selected in any department because he has no powerful person’s recommendation.These days he is working in the fruit mandi and earns 300 rupees per day by using his hands.
“He is a Pathan and a Pathan is always ghairatmand”
“All previous leaders were hypocrites and liars but Imran Khan is better than them all. He is a Pathan and a Pathan is always ghairatmand. I think that he’ll build up a new Pakistan and we’ll live in a changed country where we can get our rights in all phases and circles…”
**“Baba ji,” I pressed, “what do you say about PMLN? Can they not solve these problems which Pakistan is facing?”
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The old man said:“Yes, they can do this, but N League does politics of egoism which is not good for Pakistan.” He added: “All of Pakistan’s youth is with Imran Khan.”
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It was a hot day and Baba ji was drinking one glass of water after another.
The next morning was pleasant and cloudy.The police and army were still patrolling their designated areas. The police had removed the advertisement banners that workers of political parties had fixed or erected near polling stations. Voters were out early, standing in queues outside the polling booths, their faces expressing irritation because they had been prohibited from keeping their mobile phones in their pockets.
It was as if Pakistan had won the World Cup final against India.
Boys and girls wearing expensive-looking Imran KhanT-shirts were an ubiquitous sight. Some were standing in the sunroofs of their cars, waving PTI flags and making victory signswith their fingers at the polling stations. They seemed decided about the victory of Imran Khan.
By evening people had gathered attea “hotels”in bazaarsand were watching the election results pour in on TV screens. They made noises, shouted and roaredwhile watching the performance of their favorite candidates. By late night, Lahorewas up in a roar. It was as if Pakistan had won the World Cup final against India. The city’s streets had filled up with boys in T-shirts and jeans. They had come from the greater sprawl of the city, not from its posh areas, and were revving their motorbikes and dancing violently to the beat of a classic Punjabi dhol. To the odd Imran Khan supporter who now ventured out, the N-League walahs shouted: “Sher! Ikvarifer!”
ab itni tareef suni hai ke qeeme wale naan try karne hi padenge, whenever get a chance to visit Lahore
churri tale dum to lene do