Just when I thought the famous of my home district Gujarat were given more to bluster than substance and that Ch Ahmad Mukhtar was about to prove it wrong, he chickened out. Mukhtar had warned Chaudhry Brothers that he would root them out of politics. He said once he went after his enemies, he never relented until he trounced them. Many thought it would be a fight to finish because Chaudhrys had bitten Mukhtar in the past, and more recently, they thwarted his desire to be prime minister after Gilani quit unceremoniously. Punters moved in. Some said it was a fixed fight and Mukhtar was acting as president’s matador to scare the Gujrati bulls as Dr Zulfiqar Mirza once staged a similar act against formidable Altaf Bhai. Mirza were to ride into the sunset. However, all bets are off since Ch Mukhtar has called Ch Shujat his elder brother and elders deserve all the respect. People now think it was no bull fight at all; it was more of a show of mongoose and the snake by a charlatan snake-charmer. Ch Mukhtar is back to normal and Chaudhry Brothers are in business as usual. The snake charmer has put both the mongoose and the snake in their bags and walked off.
DR A P SANGDIL
Oslo, Norway
