(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.)
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI/PESHAWAR/QUETTA – The nation that has continued to ooze with pride over a man’s ability to steal others’ wives, simultaneously unflinchingly believes that the man is ‘Sadiq and Ameen’.
This peculiar behavioral phenomenon was witnessed over the past week as wide ranging members of the nation, almost all of whom self-identified as wholehearted supporters of an immensely popular man, shared posts on social media and private messaging apps distastefully taking pride in the man’s alleged ability to woo married women.
Adjectives like ‘player’, ‘cheetah’, ‘shehzada’, among countless others were used throughout the week with cropped photos of the man who is in his third marriage, showing him alongside another married woman.
What makes this chain of events particularly intriguing for political scientists is the fact that the man in question is the current prime minister of a country, and the woman he was cropped with is the first lady of another powerful state.
“What makes this especially perplexing is the fact that despite such wholehearted support – by both men and women – for what can only be deemed promiscuous behaviour, if not downright infidelity, the man in question still continues to be called ‘Sadiq and Ameen’” notes Ayesha Hameed, a professor at the Behavioral Sciences department at Fatima Jinnah Women University.
“Let’s not forget that the man is where he is because his greatest rival wasn’t deemed ‘Sadiq and Ameen’, while he was,” says renowned political analyst Suleman Yousuf, of the Islamabad-based ‘Think Before You Tank’ think-tank.
