Theatre of the absurd

Published September 3, 2014

THE ‘theatre of the absurd’ staged in Islamabad has entered its third week. The Sheherzade of One Thousand and One Nights had to keep the story incomplete for the sake of one person only (The King).

Our hats off to the two demagouges in Islamabad for keeping in place the crowd of thousands on a ‘waada-i-farda’.

Syed Javaid Hasan
Karachi

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2014

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