Voodoo Video: BB's New Name: Smart Nephew:
Slam Dunk Books
By
LampPost
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON:
Floodgates of information about scandals hitherto hidden under
wraps, seem to have burst open in Islamabad revealing what has
been going on in the past three years. This has started as the
cloak of honesty and accountability gives way to very familiar
stories of loot and plunder in the name of national security and
good governance.
Thanks
to the revelations by the unsophisticated corporate head of Husnain
Construction Company, who revealed all about the “Mr Two
Per cent” of the Big Mush (BM) government, new people are
now coming forward to speak out.
This
Mr Two Per Cent has, however, closeted himself into a very quiet
corner, somewhere on this planet and even after 11 days of the
facts given out by his employer, he has not uttered a word in
his defence. Nor has any one from the Government or the chief
executive’s secretariat or the Information Ministry which
is so quick in issuing denials, they sometimes do it even before
a story is published.
LampPost
has now heard from very credible insiders that a huge scandal
in the Tele-communications sector, involving a so-called “nephew”
of BM, was dumped by the partisan National Accountability Bureau
(NAB) but not after a big row between its head and BM himself,
resulting in the former deciding to quit NAB. This NAB Chief,
reported by all to be really honest 
guy
who was seriously interested in “across the board”
accountability was so frustrated when BM himself ordered that
he should not probe into the wrong doing of this so-called Nephew,
fronting for a Canadian Company against the ever dependable Chinese
bidders, that he ultimately quit his job.
The
issue was of a $70 million contract for making mobile telephones
and the nephew prevailed upon all, including the NAB chief although
at one stage, a senior NAB official virtually scolded him and
threw him out of the NAB office. But Lo and Behold, he came back
with the authority of the Big Boss and got his way, taking with
him two high level casualties, one Anis Bajwa, PSO to the big
boss and ultimately the NAB chief himself. Now LampPost has learnt
that the nephew’s company has been given another two-year
extension of the contract. Who said nepotism had ended with the
ouster of the “dirty politicians”. LampPost has been
promised full details and documents of this scam soon and these
will be up for every one to see, revealing the real face of the
main players in this game.
This
also shows not just the “dirty politicians” had dirty
linen which the Press washed in public. In fact the khakis are
so scared of "their dirty linen" they are rushing through
new and ridiculously dubious Press laws. They want to whack the
media hacks into total silence. Some details of these laws have
been posted elsewhere, but LampPost has learnt that the conspiracy
to stop the media from using any government document as evidence
against any government functionary was basically the brainchild
of BM and his close corrupt ones, who were scared of getting exposed
sooner than later.
One
way the new scandals are to come out is through books now being
rushed through the publishing houses in US, ready to reveal the
inside stories of what has been going on to deceive and mislead
the people of Pakistan and the world during the last three years.
These books are being written by well informed Pakistani insiders,
who now have settled in the US, but who have brought a wealth
of information and documentation with them. These books could
make life miserable for the BM government, specially after an
elected Parliament comes into being with some highly motivated,
articulate and brave people using the forum to show the emperor
that he had no clothes on.
LampPost
has learnt that two of these books would be particularly damaging,
one revealing many secrets of the Khakis, their ways, their infighting
et al. In these days of the internet, it would take these books
just a few days to spread round the world. One of the books will
also cater to the political regimes before the present rule of
the jackboots.
While
upcoming books may not worry the people in power, or their security
details, one reported event, if true, could prove to be a real
embarrassment. LampPost has learnt that in one of the private
parties frequented by some VVIPs in Islamabad, a video tape was
made of one very important person who was said to be in high spirits
in the early hours of one September night (or morning) and trying
to be extra friendly to a member of the other sex. The story of
this video's presence has reached the corridors of the IMF and
the World Bank in Washington DC, but as yet no one has claimed
to have seen it. In this private video some security people are
reportedly running after this important person begging “the
Sir” to leave the lady alone. Who can this guy be? LampPost
will leave all to guess until the video itself surfaces, somewhere,
sometime, God knows when, and if, on the internet.
Also
coming from another circuit in US is the news that leader of the
PPP, BeeBee is seriously considering the option of putting herself
up as a Presidential Candidate, should the shape of the new assembly
allow some politicking on these lines. Since she is disqualified
to be a member of the Parliament, no such condition exists until
now on the qualification of a Presidential Candidate. So if she
can run for the highest office, she could give Big Mush a big
run for his money.
LampPost
expects that this disclosure would result in the Law Ministry
offices in Islamabad opened up even on a Sunday, to draw up a
new list of qualifications for presidential candidates, including
one which could say: “The First Name of the Candidate should
begin with a Pee, ending on a Zee with the last name to start
with an Emm and end on an Eff.” It would be a hard political
act for BeeBee to change her name as another condition would be:
“No name changed after this law is promulgated will be acceptable
as a presidential candidate.”
One
thing is, however, certain. BeeBee would not want to add any Effs
in her name.
