Yes, I's afraid out bemused gora is definitely going to have trouble with this one. But the biggest puzzler currently occupying this country's attention is the Jang-Saif confrontation. First of all, it is different for an outsider to understand why Pakistan's biggest newspaper is called War to begin with. But let's put this aside as I haven't fathomed it either. The point here is that the group has fully lived up to its masthead.
All governments have problems with newspaper editors and owners.
In civilised democracies, these differences are discussed over a five-course lunch and a couple of bottles of vintage wine. And even if a meeting of minds is not achieved by the time the chocolate mouse arrives, there is no police raid on the newspaper office. And newsprint stocks are never sealed, nor bank accounts ever frozen. What is even more fascinating than Senator Saifur Rahman's vies as expressed on Mir Shakil's tape recorder is his indignation at the fact that his words have been preserved for posterity. The man was livid that he had been bugged.