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Humour and the dark side of reality. IF one is lucky enough to possess a sense
of humour (a rare commodity in the Republic of Pakistan ...
... his comedies, where the light-hearted humour is often ... and his inability to recognise
the reality of people's ... Malvolio expresses the dark side of comedy and love ...
... the imagination roaming free whilst in reality one is ... to, having previously lived
in the country side. ... a Koala shake” The playful dark humour and satirical ...
... cross in order to shift into another reality. ... obscure references and allusions, the
humour displayed in ... and positively does not cooperate with the Dark Side. ...
... sensed disappointment, “ I felt the house in bad humour and walked ... great jars that
stood like eastern guards at either side of the dark entrance ”(569 ...
Submitted by ahsanmajeed on September 20, 2005
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IF one is lucky enough to possess a sense of humour (a rare commodity in the Republic of Pakistan which tends to take itself ultra-seriously and is host to a plague of enemies of laughter) one must hang on to it like dear life. Do not let it go. It is a priceless attribute.
This country has just completed two rounds of balloting for our grass-roots representation. The various headlines in our national press are interesting. ‘Violence mars LB polls — 34 dead, scores hurt,’ right next to which was the headline ‘ Polls peaceful, transparent, says CEC.’ ‘Violence mars 2nd round of LB polls — Death toll put between 19 and 29 — Large-scale rigging alleged,’ underneath which was ‘EC calls for reports on poll deaths.’ ‘33 die in violence as curtain falls on polls — Dead include two FC personnel — over 350 injured,’ under which we read ‘LB polls to strengthen political system : PM.’ ‘29 killed in second phase of local elections — PPP says 100 workers injured in poll violence — CEC says 22 killed, no rigging complaints — says voter turnout 60 per cent in Punjab, 40-45 per cent in Sindh and 45 pc in NWFP.’
This was all on Friday, the day after the peaceful polling. Yesterday, a back page headline in this newspaper announced : ‘Killings not poll-related : CEC.’
We must be thankful for editors who have managed to retain their sense of humour.
President Pervez Musharraf, on several occasions, the last being on August 22 in Rawalpindi, has assured his countrymen and women that by 2007, general election year, there will be ‘electricity and clean water for all.’ Until then, perhaps three-thirds of the population of this country will either not have any water at all, or they will have access to non-potable water which will either kill them or make them very very sick indeed. Now, that is humour, but veering towards, to use the old German expression, ‘galgen-humor’.
Foreign Secretary Riaz Muhammad Khan must...
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