Elections at Pakistan’s elite social clubs are taken more seriously than their poor cousins, the polls for the national and provincial assemblies.
The elections over at the Lahore Gymkhana were supposed to be held on the 8th of February but have been postponed till the 7th of March. Apparently, there is much wheeling, dealing, wining, dining and manoeuvring afoot. Two members of the club’s election commission have also resigned in protest.
Misbah-ur-Rehman is set to win the polls and stay at the helm of club affairs for three years.
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The state is supposed to take care of its citizens from cradle to the grave.
One doesn’t know what infant mortality figures that the Punjab government has managed to achieve but it would appear that the grave part is going to get better than that of the cradle.
The government’s new initiative, the Shehr-e-Khamoshaan project, is going to set up graveyards in the province. Well, at least it’s a start. How about working your way from the dead to the living, Khadim-e-Aalia?
