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What a 'Half Time' ! - letter

Half time at Shandur Polo festival on 9th July was a full time public address adventure. In Polo half time means 15 minutes or 20 minutes rest for players and their horses. At Shandur it was a different story. At “half time” public address system was facilitated for the meaningless speeches of 8 VIPs from 4 different political parties with every one trying to score his own point.

Two speakers belonged to Muslim League Q, one speaker belonged to Jamaat-e-Islami, two speakers belonged to Pakistan Peoples party and three speakers belonged to Awami National party. It was a co-incidence that non of them had a substantial point to make in the speech. Even then each one took 10-12 minutes to talk empty rhetoric.

I suggest that half time should be spared from such boredom, and such speeches if at all necessary should be made after the final whistle of the match when poor spectators will disperse and the speakers will have all liberty to speak on matters related to hell or heaven.  I humbly request that  half time be treated as half time in the game and not full time in boring political speeches.

Bashir Hussain Azad
Chitral.

11 July 08