Auntie Shamim and her escapades . . .

Can someone inform the Guinness Records that we have a woman in Pakistan, in the capital city of Islamabad nonetheless, who is perhaps an aunt to the largest populace in the world. Auntie Shamim . . . a relative to over 150 male visitors per day!!

This is the latest of the talibanization cases in our happening city of Isloo. Dozens of female students from a nearby Mosque (Lal Masjid for the detail-savvy reader) had been monitoring a house in G/6-1 and one fine Tuesday morning raided the premises kidnapping Auntie Shamim, her daughter, daughter-in-law and 6 month grand-daughter along with the plainclothes policemen who were guarding the perimeter (aka bouncers).

The reason to raid private property? The house was plaguing our society through its illicit activities and needed to be reprimanded because the authorities were not taking any action to control this menace to our society. The reason for kidnapping Auntie Shamim? To educate release her once she repented for her un-Islamic means of livelihood; which apparently she has done in a press statement and is now a free woman clad in a black burka. (that’s the garb extremist women in Pakistan might wear [atop their regular clothing] as a means of protecting their virtue from the leery eyed)

I ask you what the hell is going on with our society and government. I’m not condoning the existence of brothels in any manner however, I am concerned with the fact that the reins of control are slipping from our illustrious President who apparently had 90% support from half the population of Pakistan during the referendum in 2002.

When such issues start happening in your own backyard it makes one wonder how long we can sit perched on our posts, all dog-eyed and ignorant to the fact that the fabric which bonds liberal Pakistan together, is slowly acquiring a new tailor and he intends to present us with a new style of dressing.

Lets just hope that the government innuendos and political messages to the powers-that-be are read soon and we can go back to having relaxing weekends with friends and a few beers and not have to worry that the trash is being sifted through late night by the students of a nearby madrassah (that’s ‘religious school’ to you) and a lecture on the ‘sins’ of sipping brewed water is in the pipeline.

for the media story you can go to the link below:http://www.guardian.co.uk/
international/story/0,,2044910,00.html