Commonality between Veena Malik photo & Mansoor Ejaz's memo

Question: What is common between a Veena Malik photo and a Mansoor Ijaz memo?


Answer: Both are excellent advertisements for the ISI, and both pinch it right where it hurts.


And then there is more.


Both surfaced out of nowhere, both are explosive, both evoke passions amongst average Pakistanis, both are allegedly a threat to the supreme national interest of the country, both potentially tempt articles 5 and 6 of the constitution, both are being categorised as traitorous and criminal and both are the instigators of the wrath of the ghairat brigade in Pakistan.


The only question that remains to be answered is how long both of them will last and how. Would these ghairat-shattering phenomena fizzle out just like so many other ghairat shattering phenomena of the past? I mean does anyone even remember who Raymond Davis was, or what our cricketers are doing in a British jail, or what happened in Abbottabad on May 2nd, and …well, I have been thinking for five minutes and can't recall any other ghairat-shattering phenomenon to complete what I am sure is a long list.


My point exactly.


The trouble with us Pakistanis is that we have too much hatred in our hearts and too little imagination in our heads to fully appreciate people for their confidence and perseverance alone, if nothing else.


Look at the poor president for instance. He takes all sorts of pressure from all sides for too long, falls ill eventually, goes for a check-up abroad, and all hell breaks loose.


I mean what does a president need to do to fall ill in peace around here?


And speaking of Zardari


Question: What is common between Veena Malik and president Zardari????


Answer: Both of them have the maximum number of enemies in Pakistan, and both of them don't give a flying UFO to that.


And then there is more.


Both of them are ambitious, both take calculated risks, both are shrewd enough to know what they are getting themselves into, and both bask in the glory of the aftermath these risks generate.


By the way, I think the president should make Ms Malik his media advisor. She is a wise girl, isn't she? For starters she fully knows what sells in the world, especially coming from Pakistan. It's women empowerment; either an oppressed woman (no offence intended to the oppressed woman), or the defying woman (no offence intended to the defying woman either).


Look at her and how she moulded herself to be both these women all packaged in one.


A partially nude starlet of an Islamic Republic; trying to cover up some essential secrets, while balancing herself on one leg; sporting an oversized ISI tattoo on a perfectly shaped arm, and holding a ready to go hand grenade, right where the head is.


Potent, isn't it?


Is it me or is there something really uncannily ironic about this image?


I mean does anyone else see it the way I see it?


If we were to believe what General Jim Jones said about Pakistan being the country hell-bent on self-destruction, and then we were philosophical enough to see the symbolism in the Veena Malik photo shoot, then don't we have a life time logo for all things nationalistic?


Unless of course the PTI comes into power, and all the ghairat related scores are settled once and for all.


When BBC asked Ms Malik what she was thinking when she decided to do a nude photo shoot, she replied by calling it a 'personality shoot' (whatever that is) and not a nude shoot, and insisted that she had been wearing a little something, which got morphed out of the picture.


"I was topless, but not that topless", said the brave girl, and probably said it with a straight face too.


Imagine Ms Malik being the media advisor for the government, and the government is asked whether it was privy to the Osama bin Laden operation. What would be our official response?


We were aware, but not that aware. Period.


Spot on, isn't it?


But in all honesty, I don't see that happening to Ms Malik for at least in the near future.


Pakistani women are empowered alright, but not that empowered.


Even Rehman Malik, the coolest person over such issues, has promised that he is going to look into the nudity matter himself.


I mean, c'mon Mr Malik! Aren't you in enough trouble already? What exactly are you going to achieve by looking into the nudity matter? Don't you know that we need at least four pious witnesses to look into the nudity matter (or something like that)? And the last time I checked, you were neither pious nor four (or were you?).


I think the best thing to do would be to form a committee for the nudity matter and let the committee look into it. Or maybe we can save money and ask the parliamentary committee on national security to do the job. I am sure they have nothing better to do for a long time.


And while they probe the nudity matter, may be they can also probe what would happen if Veena Malik wears her clothes, or the Mansoor Ijaz memo changes into a yellow butterfly. Would it change the life of an average Pakistani?


Question: What is common between Veena Malik and an average Pakistani?


Answer: Both of them need attention, and now!!