A PIA aircraft taxing down the runway at, say, Kennedy or Heathrow, will be ordered to return to the gate and the passengers told to take the next bus to Lahore. Then the plane will be frozen. Ships on sea will be seized, proving once again that Long John Silver not only lives but remains very much in business in the West. Trade as we know it will grind to a halt. That is food for thought, assuming anyone is thinking, the habit being slightly out of fashion in the land of the faithful and the twice born.
Strange things seem to be happening everywhere.
From Tel Aviv comes news that an eccentric museum curator's whimsical experiment has borne amazing fruit. He fashioned a hairpiece from the hairs of Samson, who, according to the Bible and Cecil B. de Mille, brought down the pagan temple - and has since been claiming that it has given him the strength of 10 men. He has also pulled tractors and tanks, lifted squealing women into the air as if they were pieces of straw and turned parked cars turtle with one hand. If he were not an Israeli, it could have been suggested that he come to Pakistan and do something about the Central Board of Revenue and the Federal Investigation Agency, not to mention the Accountability Bureau. Is then there a final solution to the cockroach crisis that has the world in its grip, specially the city of Islamabad where the size of the ordinary household cockroach is about the same as Imran Khan's party.