Some rants are just too good!

This one, for example, covers all the relevant issues without so much as pausing for breath:

"For god sakes wake up you slumbering fools. Musharraf’s exit does not have to mean the return of another evil period for us. Why cant we make it mean something more and bring in more educated people into the services and politics. Talk, speak out, and demand action and accountability so that these goons don’t get to loot us again. Lets not be quiet and say lawyers are liars and politicians are pansies. Maybe if we just worked just as hard as making things work as we do in criticising, things could get better. Start by doing your bit – bit by bit – and wait for the change to happen. Don’t sit and complain in your comfortable houses and cars. Don’t do that because it doesn’t help anyone."

Get the full note here >>

Brilliant job by the author Saira Ansari.

Non-functional CJ in Lahore

So, here's the deal:

Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the Chief Justice of Pakistan ("non-functional"), will address the Lahore Bar Association tomorrow at 5 PM.

He is travelling by road, in virtual defiance of the veiled threats by the Government (worded as an inability to guarantee his security).

Apparently, when he last went to Peshawar, the 2.5 - 3 hour journey took him 9 hours!

So, realistically, given that at least two other cities along the way plan to honour him, he probably won't get to Lahore before 6 or 7 PM.

The current plan of the political parties is to gather together at the Data Durbaar chowk by 5 PM.

See if you can make it.