The disintegration of the way conventional democrats think things should be is a worldwide, global phenomenon. Not only did the sky not fall – but none of the audio leaks of the last few weeks, none of the speculation, and none of the anticipation delivered any obvious changes. A new DG ISI, at long last, has taken command at Aabpara. The current regime, built on the civilian-military-intelligence triumvirate has already graduated sans collapse. At the 3rd Annual Asma Jahangir Conference – a remarkable and impressive legacy event that has generated exactly what it is supposed to – the fiery speeches and rhetoric was hopeful and, for many Pakistani democrats, quite exciting. The tapes and the leaks seem to be feeding on a different supply chain than the PTI’s parliamentary lifeline. Maybe conventional would have folded by now. Humpty Dumpty was broken and could never be put together again. The breathless post Notification Gate commentary has been, for lack of a better word, embarrassing. PM Khan has been anything but conventional. Perhaps this confidence is its own virtue, and perhaps this virtue is a liability for a country that could really use good, conventional leadership right now. There’s just this one thing: Imran Khan ‘didn’t ask’. For now at least, ‘parliament’ thinks he’s fine. As a slew of bills were passed in parliament, I imagined how PM Khan may have processed the entire scene. To be truly nervous he would have needed to take the exercise seriously enough to believe that the sanctity of the democratic process matters. Nicholson, deadpan: “I didn’t ask”.Īt last week’s “parliamentary” joint session of the upper and lower houses, Prime Minister Imran Khan may have been nervous. A companion assures Jack Nicholson’s The Joker of how he looks: “…you look fine,” she says.
One of the coolest one-liners in any Hollywood film is from Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman.
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