Saki Nama

  • The General Problem & Mohsin Naqvi

    There are two ways: 1. Invest millions. Campaign day and night. Speak a lot. Bicker. Argue. Work hard. Hold the right testes in left hand. Win elections. Become a CM. 2. Fraud with taxes. Make business. Earn a name. Make a fortune. Sit with the wrong people in the right positions. No need of elections.…

  • The Cycle

    If His Highness could relate to anyone, that would be Bahadur Shah Zafar. The last Mughal Emperor. Had Delhi Sultanate. Metaphorically. Was robbed of that too. Exiled. And died in Burma in 1862. Couldn’t even pay Ghalib enough. But then, if Ghalib would have been paid enough, we wouldn’t have Deevan-e-Ghalib. His letters were all…

  • The Conversation – Appointing CPM

    Nawaz: I want Dar to be the Caretaker PM. Zardari: No. We had SS. Now it’s our turn. Fazlu: Where’s my turn? Zardari: You are not playing. Asim: Decide and let me know. So I may reject. Dar: Make me the CPM. I will stay neutral. I promise. Zardari: Will you get the surgery done?…

  • For non-violence to work, the opponent must have Conscience

    Those who condemn violence would have condemned Bhagat Singh too. Like Gandhi. He didn’t approve of the revolutionaries. Without violence, French Revolution wouldn’t have been possible. That same Revolution gave Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Napoleon too. But that’s deviation from the topic. Maximilien Robespierre – known as the incorruptible – was known for his violence.…

  • Poles against Polls

    Even in martial laws, elections were held. Engineered or faked, but couldn’t be ignored. Such was the power of polls. Against poles. Ayub held elections in 1962. ‘Defeated’ Fatima Jinnah. Yahya held elections in 1970. Didn’t like the results. Dissected. Zia held non-party elections in 1985 to bring Junejo. But Junejo proved to be more…

  • For Now…

    3-4 years down the road, PMLN would be facing these laws / amendments that they happily passed in recent days. They will soon be crying, like they did in the past, but then they won’t have anymore support for their crocodile tears. Some of the seniors would be jailed. By the same powers beyond the…

  • ProNUNciation

    It’s not Cillian as in Sicily. It’s Killian Murphy. As it’s Kylian Mbappe. That’s the pronunciation. By the way it’s ‘pronounce’ as it is. But when it’s ‘pronunciation’, it’s proNUNciation. Not proNOUNciation. Because it’s not noun. It’s unnoun. Like in desi ‘fees’ it’s already plural. ‘Feeses’ is not a word. It’s feces. But that’s another…

  • The Purple Lighter

    A story could be written on that particular lighter. A story could be written on each cigarette lit up by that lighter. Then on all the lighters. And all the cigarettes. But that lighter was purple. Like the book: the color purple. Only one cigarette has been flames by that one. No. Two. Two cigarettes.…

  • Manuscript of Sadness

    Sadness is saddening. But lucky are those sad women on whom men write words and pages and books and poems of sadness. For a sad man, there’s no one. Just like there are words and pages and books and poems on motherhood, but almost nothing on fatherhood. He would be eating a sandwich on a…

  • Tragic Miss

    Being a man is a tragedy. Either for himself or for the society around him. Being a woman is also a tragedy. Being a non-binary is another kind of a tragedy. In fact, being is a tragedy. To be is a tragedy. Only not-to-be is not a tragedy. Singles are unhappy. Doubles are also unhappy.…