Politically, I can't think of anyone who hasn't had some hopes disappointed or even shattered. If you're a fan of one of the smaller parties, whether it be the Jamaat Islami, Tahirul Qadri, Imran Khan, Hamid Nasir Chattha or whoever, your party hasn't been allowed by an ungrateful electorate to get into power. It's difficult to think of any political leader who has emerged from the last decade with his reputation enhanced. The only long shot left to try is Farooq Leghari's Millat Party. If cotton farmers make a killing one year, it's been wiped out the next.
Sugar mills do well a year or two, and then get bogged down for the next three.
But coming to the remarks thrown out by various speakers. Dr Musadiq Masood, and as respectable a citizen these days as we were once disreputable together. Moose had to do with the tour by visiting Congressmen, and he told me that Representative Jim McDermott had remarked that Pakistanis were more self-assured than Indians. Now Congressman McDermott knows Indians better than he knows Pakistanis. It was his first visit to Pakistan, after several to India.