The prime minister sure wanted his lot around recently. Gave two heavy hitters that opportunity to bail on set programs.
First, there was the Punjab CM, who had taken along a group of journalists and anchors to Sahiwal to show them the quick progress of a coal-fired thermal power plant. When it was time for lunch, the man made a run for it, citing his elder brother’s message to drop everything and come over for his meeting, apparently with the army chief.
Interior minister Chaudhry Nisar used the exact same trick at the Saarc pow-wow. Sounds like quite a meeting.
It has always been wise advice to not take liberties with the fine folks who serve you your food. This bit of advice centres around suspicions of what they will do to your food. Think your worst and — I know a guy who knows a guy — it has happened to someone.
But recently, at a posh restaurant in Lahore’s Defence, a waiter, after a dispute, thwacked a patron on the face with a wooden tray. Several times. While all around watched.
The restaurant took to social media to apologise profusely for the incident. We don’t know what happened; the waiter in question, a BBA grad who was pursuing his MBA while he worked, had several years to experience waiting in Lahore restaurants.
Could this make for a nice short story? Updike’s A&P, but on steroids.
