Reading his press statements
which talk about “cooling Karachi situation” or listening his speech is always
fun! His body language, if you are able to watch him, indeed, through the news
channels clips, you might feel that Bollywood actors are far behind him in
exploiting mass emotions. For everydead or non-existence issue, with his
emotions, conversation style and dead arguments, he makes it a matter of life &
death, a matter of saving Pakistan from the darkness of stone-ages!
My elders say that former Pakistani politician and the founder of Bangladesh,
Sheikh Mujeeb ur Rahman used to have such conversational style. I didn’t believe
this and went to India Office Library searching some old videos of Mujeeb ur
Rahman. It was an amazing experience to discover that both resembles a lot in
terms of speeches and probably, outlook too! However one elder in Karachi says
that he copies the speech-style of Mr Rizvi, a local resident who took part in
council elections and had brought him in Muhajir politics.
He picks up one word and then by stretching it he pulls out all that’s hidden in
his mind and conscience within a single word. When he uses the word “MaouN
BehnouN” means mothers and sisters, he prolongs the word mother … up to an
extent portraying that the voice is coming from of his heart … and then he asks
for the ornaments to be donated to his political party with full emotional zeal.
He repeats his words so many times as if he is trying to take the reward
immediately from his listeners. When he talks about the religious personalities
whom he opposes then he chews the word “Maulana Sahab” little more than it is
needed like ... Maulanaaaaaa Saaahab…. in which he pulls out his internal hatred
against that religious personality.
With the advent of electronic media, he is seen everywhere talking and
delivering speeches. Media is a little cautious of him as he doesn’t allow the
anchors or interviewers to intervene in his “sermon – like – speeches” even on
TV news channels, where editing is a must and every single second is salable!
And once he starts, God knows when the end would come. Recently on NewsOne
channel, Mubashir Lucman tried to say good-bye to him twice but he resumed the
conversation again and again.
Before 2002, when there were no private news channels, he had refused to come on
state television during election campaigns because the state media wanted to
edit his speech and he had refused to do so.
He is one who, besides Multinational Corporation conference calls, invented the
concept of political telephonic speech while away from his native land. For he,
as a foreigner, couldn’t come to his own native land for number of reasons
including the fear of getting killed by his own splinter group. So you could
find his voice every where in Pakistan wherever there is PTCL coverage. God
knows who bears the cost of such long distance calls for hours and hours! His
critics say that his party men in various departments especially in PTCL connect
him illegally without any cost for several hours.
Now he is saving Pakistan from Taliban and his speeches are full of love for
Pakistan. The faded memory of people of Pakistan still remember that in 1992 he
and his party press statements were fully against of Pak army and this same
homeland, which he is trying to save now. What a great change in his approach,
philosophy, and thinking!
It is heard and few newspapers reported that, “his wife has filed a divorce
petition against him just because he spends all his nights in rehearsal of the
next day speeches by standing in front of mirror that is fixed in his bedroom.”
Perhaps, this could be a genuine reason for any woman to file divorce as her
husband. On the other hand, one has to consider that speeches are bread-n-butter
if no other sources of income is considered. He has to earn his living through
this act as exile allowance might not be sufficient to run a family aboard.
Though his followers claim that he is a “poor” politician without any source of
income to live in world’s most expensive city – London, for over a decade.
Guess who he is!!!
A Leader of Speeches Only!
by Nadia Khan