The Great Betrayal

Re: # 7

The so called PM of Pakistan, Shoukat, is called `Short-cut` perhaps because he was got elected by `Wardi Wadera` in a very short-cut manner. Instead of being elected as PM in the general election he was got elected from two most backward constituencies in a bye-election by getting those seats vacated by some `jhurlu` method.

Here see an intresting excerpt from a column of Kamran Shaffi in the Daily Times of 24.5.07 about the `Short-cut` PM:

``He is not alone. The Personal Banker gets himself talked about in a biography about Condoleezza Rice by Newsweek Chief of Correspondents and Senior Editor Marcus Mabry titled: ‘Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power’, in a most impertinent and shameful way. Apparently the Private Banker acted in a manner that suggests he doesn’t know the first thing about the etiquette of dealing with senior official representatives of foreign governments. Surprise, surprise. It is one thing to be unctuous to Arab potentates, it is quite another to interact in a dignified manner with foreign high representatives, in this case the highly intelligent and gifted Ms Rice.

It is pathetic that the so-called ‘Prime Minister’ of a significant country should be talked about in terms such as, ‘Yet, when Rice sat down with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who fancied himself a ladies’ man, Aziz puffed himself up and held forth in what he obviously thought was his seductive baritone. (He bragged — to Western diplomats, no less — that he could conquer any woman in two minutes.)’.

I ask you.

There is more: ‘“[He tried] this Savile Row-suited gigolo kind of charm: ‘Pakistan is a country of rich traditions,’ staring in [Rice’s] eyes,” a participant at the meeting recalled.

“There was this test of wills where he was trying to use all his charms on her as a woman, and she just basically stared him down. By the end of the meeting, he was babbling. The Pakistanis were shifting uncomfortably. And his voice visibly changed.”’ Infamy! Woe!``

Could some one tell me why the prime minister of Pakistan
is fondly known as ``Short Cut`` ?

kAMATH