Taimour Ahmed's column: The Emotional Officer Of The Emotional Nation

Taimour Ahmed's column: The Emotional Officer Of The Emotional Nation

Taimour Ahmed

Journalist and analyst

November 12, 2020

There was a small problem in my city Karachi. Captain (R) Safdar had to file a case against a servant, maybe even get arrested, according to Karachi, it was an SHO level job.

Although Captain (R) Safdar Sharif is a member of the family, he has the same political stature as the gamblers in our society.

I am sure that if any ordinary SHO of Karachi President would have reached the Awari Hotel and asked Safdar to get out, then the security guards of the hotel would have taken him out of the room and presented him. But some people's emotions were aroused when they saw him chanting slogans at the Quaid-e-Azam's mausoleum. He expressed his feelings to some other emotional people.

He got emotional and decided to pick up the unemotional IG of Sindh now and tell him why he had not cut the leaflet after so many nights. The leaflet was cut and then some non-emotional officers interrogated the emotional juniors and also issued a report that our servants were just a little emotional but you can also see that the Sindh police was working so slowly.

                            General Bajwa had ordered an inquiry into the case of IG Sindh

The scary thing in this whole affair is that the work that an SHO of Karachi could have done and could have done in such a way that there was no mark on the body of Captain (R) Safdar the next day, is to be done by our Commander General Qamar Bajwa. For a whole month, our analysts and spokespersons had to manipulate that this work did not happen, this is a comedy, we did not say that you should do this work and now that the report has come, then this is what the agency said. He rebuked his emotional officers but someone did it to Captain (R) Safdar.

Before proceeding with the analysis, I would like to suggest that our institutions and their personnel should sometimes listen to young artists instead of political analysts.

The analysis of our most senior journalist Kamran Khan is our national asset but if you listen to the song 'Emotional' by the emerging young Ali Aftab Saeed, it may help you to understand the psychology of the nation. They say but also sing:

بن پوچھے سمجھاتی ہے

سب کا غم بٹاتی ہے

ایویں اکھ بھر آتی ہے

میری قوم بڑی جذباتی ہے

امریکہ سے یاری پہ

ملک کی خود مختاری پہ

اسلام کی پہراداری پہ

یہ اپنا شہر جلاتی ہے

ویر عقل سے ذاتی ہے

میری قوم بڑی جذباتی ہے

جے بھارت نے حملہ کیتا

فوج تے ایٹم بم چلیسی

اسرائیل دا نان نا رہ سی

سی آئی اے دی ایسی تیسی

اس طرح کی باتیں کر کے

اپنا دل بہلاتی ہے

سر کا ساڑ بجھاتی ہے

میری قوم بڑی جذباتی ہے

Ali Aftab's analysis seems more plausible because he did not target a single institution but spoke for the nation.

The people of Karachi peeked into their collars and wondered what were the emotions in which they kept looking for a guide. In the last hours of the night, those of us who mourned the loss of the nation would climb the stairs of Abdullah Shah Ghazi's shrine to ask if Karachi was burning. You are sleeping comfortably on a hill here.

If there was no answer then, they would think that Cafe Clifton will be open soon.

Those who come from outside Karachi may not believe it, but in Karachi, even if a person comes for a two-year posting, it becomes a little more emotional. In the first military operation to free Karachi from the clutches of Altaf Bhai, he interviewed a Colonel who had just arrived in Karachi.

He said he was very upset. He said that he solved the problem of MQM by clicking, lifting some people and seating others, but this is what is happening in the boot basin. I said take kebabs and what, they said there are half naked girls walking around, my young men are standing there on duty, I am afraid all night that they may come in honor and open fire with machine guns.

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I replied that there is no such atmosphere as you are saying. He lectured me on the psychology of girls wearing sleeveless shirts and hawaladars. Thankfully, under his command, the Hawaldars controlled their emotions and no tragedy occurred. The only way to make progress in the emotional institutions of this emotional nation is to become a little more emotional.

When General Bajwa pleaded on the issue of extension that there was no law, he was not emotional at all. He said in a cool tone

So our elders should be in institutions or standing outside the gates of institutions, so they should teach their younger ones to be unemotional.

I was heartbroken by the thought that if an emotional person saw pictures of the atrocities against Muslims in China yesterday and asked other emotional people the other afternoon to pick up the C-pack man, he would understand.

Then he reassured his heart by saying that the nation is emotional but not so much.