| The Secret Service personnel responsible for the life of the American President are taught one pithy lesson: “Look at the crowd,” they are told. “Don’t look at the President. He is not going to kill himself.” |
| Such advice would not be applicable in quixotic Pakistan, where both Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Mian Nawaz Sharif have demonstrated that heads of state and chief executives can and do commit suicide. |
| Never before in the history of this country’s politics have two personages, both holding positions of supreme authority, misbehaved with such errant irresponsibility towards their own country and against their own personal interests. No two accomplices, having fallen out, have ventilated their grievances in such an unsavoury public vendetta. [EXTRACT] |
Published in THE NATION 22 July 1993, and reprinted in THE ARMLESS QUEEN (1994). |
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