Sir: Uproar is being created quite unnecessarily in an uncalled for manner over Prime Minister Imran Khan’s calling PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as “Sahiba” while addressing a big public gathering in Wana in tribal areas the other day.
PPP is demanding PM to apologize over his statement in the National Assembly, PPP’s Syed Khurshid Shah is calling for applying Article 6 of the Constitution on the PM.
Bilawal Zardari has been calling on all occasions duly elected PM Imran Khan by all names like selected, puppet, inefficient, incompetent and what not but there has not been all that uproar as what PPP jiayalas are raising over the PM’s calling Bilawal as “Sahiba” though surely his sex has not been changed on this.
This scribe is reminded of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in later part of 1960s having asking about Pakistan Movement worker and Secretary General of Convention Muslim League Syed Ahmad Saeed Kirmani who passed away not so long ago as who is she? The Muslim League had criticized ZA Bhutto and the media people had sought the PPP Founder’s comments next day when late Kirmani’s remarks were published in English and Urdu newspapers which were not many like today in those years though. Mr Bhutto had responded to the journalists’ query by asking “who is she?”. Whether Mr Bhutto had said this in lighter vein or sarcastically but there was certainly such uproar from any quarter then as is being raised by the opposition leaders of both PPP and PML(N).
MZ RIFAT
Lahore