THE recent visit of Ayyan Ali, the super model and singer, to Karachi University was in bad taste. Not long ago she was caught siphoning off half a million dollars abroad from Islamabad airport. Although the hearing is still continuing, she should have refrained from visiting KU till her name was cleared by the courts.

Our memories are too short. We can turn ordinary people into religious scholars overnight, no matter how dubious their credentials.

We turn a blind eye towards former cricketers convicted of wrongdoings by Justice Abdul Qayyum and hold them in high esteem, but we are not prepared to allow the three cricketers convicted of spot-fixing to play again irrespective of the fact that they have completed their sentences.

Jaffar Naqvi
Lahore

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2015

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