Pakistan Drowns as Zardari Fiddles
Source: Daily Times
The grins and smiles above sicken me and say it all.
Legend has it that the Emperor of Rome, Nero fiddled whilst Rome burnt. Today another emperor of sorts is following in his footsteps. The Pakistani ‘Nero’ is President Zardari who is fiddling whilst Pakistan drowns.
With over 1400 deaths so far and 3 million Pakistanis affected by the floods many made homeless and facing possibly death and disease in the coming days, the President of Pakistan has left his people in distress and not cancelled planned visits to France and Britain.
Instead the Zardari family is on tour, a vacation and holiday of sorts as shown in the photo above which shows Bilawal Zardari and Asifa Zardari accompanying the President on his official visits to France.
President Zardari has rightly been criticised for leaving Pakistan at a such crucial time. Instead of unifying the nation and leading relief efforts personally, the President has swanned off to a foreign jaunt it seems as reported in the Nation newspaper today, as shown below:
Meanwhile the analysts have termed this tour of the Pakistani head of the state, as more to the interest of the Zardaris, than for the sake of Pakistani people. Introducing the Zardari children to the president of the strongest EU countries is, in fact, a move to bring these young people in the field of politics, they said, adding that the president was doing all this at the expense of national exchequer collected from poor people’s earning. The President is also scheduled to visit his father Hakim Ali Zardari who lives in a big villa in the suburbs of Paris, for which the President has hired a helicopter…. After his official schedule, Zardari was to make a brief private visit to Normandy in northern France where his family owns a holiday home.
It is clear that Pakistan is drowning as President Zardari fiddles in France and soon in Britain too.
