weather reports be damned!!

so election year is almost upon us..alliances are being formed..charters being signed...anti government drives being planned and the government's budget is around the corner...the president has had it easy for a long time...but this last year has been a rough one...the cartoon controversy coupled with the "mehngai" followed by the disastrous Bush trip had him in a spot of bother...he's still not out of the woods yet though...if prices are brought down within the next couple of months things will die down on the whole...if he takes off his uniform soon, there'll be hardly any excuse left for the ARD wallahs to oppose.or for tht matter bush and the west..MMA will be the main opposition but it seems like the government or agencies have managed to split the MMA with fazl-ur-rehman refusing to join Qazi's anti government agitation.all thts left is for the Q-league to put its house in order which will be a tall order indeed...

read this piece by Dr. manzur Ejaz today..he compares the current situation to the era of Ayub Khan...ive never agreed with this 22 families controlling everything is bad...ok its inherently bad but what i mean to say is that korea has its chaebols, japan its conglomerates and today u look at india and u see the ambanis,tatas etc making multinational companies..i'm going to do some research on the evolution of Korea soon...see how these handul of families made LG,Samsung,Hyundai,Daewoo and in the process lifted all of Korea out of poverty and made it the worlds 11th largest economy today...korea also happens to be the most wired country with some of the most cutting edge R&D taking place there.....so i just wonder that if the nationalisation had'nt taken place, is it possible tht the saigols, habibs of this land would have established world class companies?...khair the good doctor thinks tht instead of 22 families there are 22,000 families controlling everything...i guess 22000 familiers are better than 22...

finally would like to comment on the rains that took place in most of punjab yesterday...for days people had been praying for rain...for days BBC,PTV etc had been reporting no chance of rain...Lo and behold it rained yesterday night...