Post-Osama P.stan—Shades of White (Lies)

Having milked the US government of billions of dollars – most of which was pocketed by the politicians and defence biggies – , on the pretext of supporting the fight against terrorism, these P.stani politicians and officials were naturally hard-pressed to invent white lies to cover up their own, and the country’s complicity with terrorists, following Osama’s discovery and killing in their backyard, very near the road on which the ex- & Axed President Musarraf used to do his jogging exercise.

The whole P.stani system feigned total ignorance about the presence of the man or monster whom the whole world was on the lookout for.

This was so white a lie, that naturally, no sane man would believe.

With a little imagination, however, the P.stani’s could have deployed a brighter shade of white lie that could easily have passed muster.

They could simply have said that they have learnt and practised some lessons on propriety and justice from their good neighbour.

One Afzal Guru, has been convicted and sentenced to death by the highest court of the neighbouring Country for an armed attack on the Country’s Parliament.

The neighbours are so law-abiding and such believers in fair-play that they have been protecting the attacker safely in great comfort for the past several years.

Absolute fair play has ensured that Guru will not be executed until his rightful turn comes up as per the queue of convicts in the death row.

And there is a possibility that the present President who is fighting her own Jain-Jihad against all cruelty like a death-sentence irrespective of the crime committed, will accede to the mercy petition in favour of Guru.

And, of course, there is also the example of Ajmal Kasab, similarly convicted for terrorism, who is under the government’s protection at great expenses to the state exchequer, till the death sentence is confirmed by all the courts in the world.

Citing these exemplary policies of a good neighbour, which is also highly appreciated by the Americans, the P.stanis, following the discovery and death of Osama in their backyard, could simply have announced that they had taken on themselves, the burden of keeping Osama isolated under their watch so that he can’t do any more mischief for the Americans.

Would not this deeper shade of white lie have placed the P.stani’s in a much brighter light ?????