Will tomorrow come?
Why do we Pakistanis leave everything to future? Why do we brush past aside? Has mitti pao become our national symbol of compromise? President Asif Ali Zardari, soon after he landed in the magnificent palace located behind the Parliament, proceeded to Saudi Arabia to perform Umra. True to the tradition of Pakistani rulers he took a bunch of 250 associates along with him who were housed in top class hotels in the vicinity of holy places. This was done at a cost of Rs 24.9 million. What followed was drastically different from past practice of rulers. The president, in the third week of January deposited this amount into national exchequer out of his personal resources. Barring early years of Pakistan, this act of the sitting president can safely be termed as unprecedented. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was meticulously honest for not financing his personal requirements from the exchequer. So was Liaquat Ali Khan. It is said that Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, as former PM, accepted Rs 18 (or 28) thousands...