The bounty

Published January 1, 2013

THE gruff and grumpy sounding Minister of Railways does not pay a lot of tax. However, it is amazing how the media has picked up this trivial issue in spite of the fact that Mr. Bilour did something that deserved his name to be put right there alongside some of the greatest Pakistanis.

Yes, Bilour Sahib is that illustrious sitting minister of this ‘secular’ coalition government who put a multimillion-dollar bounty on the head of that American idiot who made that idiotic anti-Islam film on that idiotic website whose name can no more be taken without one foaming in the mouth.

So how dare one question Bilour Sahib’s tax records? It is us who should be paying tax to him!

At least 70 per cent the tax money of all tax-paying Pakistanis should be channelled to the holy coffers of Bilour Sahib whose humble, faithful self can continue putting bounty money on anyone he considers to be an infidel – in a secular kind if a way, of course.

And do not mind that rumbling sound echoing the streets of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It’s just the remains of Pushtun nationalist leader, Bacha Khan, just cringing and turning in his grave.

Actually, Bilour Sahib also wanted to put a bounty on Khan’s head as well, before being reminded that that old hag died over 20 years ago. Good for him.

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