Our Fact Check Correspondent
Islamabad
In a seminar organised by the Pakistan Diabetes Association at a local hotel in light of the current political climate, the organising doctors warned that the nation will, in fact, distribute sweets whether or not there is a martial law.
“We condemn Imran Khan’s recent statement that the nation will distribute sweets were there to be a toppling of the Nawaz Sharif regime by a military takeover,” said Dr Ahsan Manzoor, head of the endocrinology department at Service Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore. “The fact of the matter is that a military takeover has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Sweets will be distributed regardless of whatever happens.”
These views were concurred with by other speakers at the conference.
“If we were to compare our population with that of Bangladesh,” said Dr Ijaz Orakzai, professor of public health at the Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, “we will see that though the populations of the two countries are comparable. But our annual sugar consumption is roughly around half of theirs.”
“And this is despite mithai being a supposedly Bengali specialty,” he continued.
“Every goddamn day, there are some bloody gulaab jaamuns at the nation’s offices even if our national team has lost a match but an individual player has done well,” he said. “Some goddamn chham-chham when some schmuck’s schmuck-son has gotten engaged in the hopes of producing some more schmucks.”
“We, as a nation, are condemned to diabetes.”
At the end of the seminar, participants and members of the press had tea,barfi and pateesa to celebrate the conclusion of a successful seminar.
