Panamagate has been on the tip of everybody’s tongue for a year now. From the revelations to the denials to the trials, it has all been a funny business and mockery of common sense and an extreme lack of respect for the public. Putting aside the blame game and passing of judgement for a moment, let us focus on something more ironic, comical, and depressing, all at the same time. You might be wondering how one phenomenon can hold so many traits and apparently they aren’t synonymous with each other. Well! To me, they are and have been episodes of sorts for the last couple of months. Being an amateur, I can’t find an easy transition into the matter so I’ll be blunt about it and jump straight to it. Having a track of what’s happening in the political scene, I was not that ignorant of the ranting was going on in the political arena as I had been in the past because of the classical slogan – “ye Pakistan hy ”. When this whole ‘fiasco’ started, I was as optimistic as the next pers
Of the many encounters that we come across, we face, we experience and we forget and never in the rest of the life may we ever care to think about them or they surface to memory there is no lesson to be learnt. But some scars root deep and run through our veins as an embodiment of agony, the scars of rejection, the scars of feeling worthless, and the scars of being an alien. You don’t have to look different for that too. Sometimes just the thoughts or even the way of thinking might make you a light years away from the people you lived your entire life with. The traumas that we carry with ourselves for the rest of our lives slowly eat away our mould and what is left is the hollow body of anger and resentment. There might not be a safe haven for the ones who have been touched by the unholy words of hate. I have often thought about it and expressed as well that we have lost our ways. We no longer know what our course should have been and to the moment we don’t realise and accept i