God bless America, long live Pakistan: In the national interest
By Kamal Siddiqi
We are also told that four persons of the ruling coalition alliance enjoy VVIP protocol at our expense. The president also enjoys this protocol. But with the Peoples’ government in place, the four “blessed” people are the prime minister himself, Mr Nawaz Sharif, Mr Asif Zardari and the de-facto interior minister Rehman Malik. This includes hundreds of police personnel as well as vehicles that are bullet proof and bomb proof and are imported for millions of rupees. The VVIP protocol also means that when these personages are in some town or city, roads are blocked and traffic is stopped so that they can pass through. Most Pakistanis wonder whether it is worth it.
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