Google-Gang: Veena and Other Drugs

Two exciting events, ironically the same night; President’s homecoming and Veena Malik’s lost and found saga climax. Interestingly, no one could be sure which one is a bigger news item. While accidental President of the troubled republic came out unscathed from a rumor/wind/wheat/Steel mill spasm, Veena Malik flashed, un-flashed and de-flashed; appeared, disappeared and reappeared. Gladly, we can’t reel the rhythm; watch, re-watch and un-watch? Nay, doesn’t work that way, does it?Disappearance gets you more publicity than flashing; had she known, would have saved her graces. Well, if the loss and found activity was pressed upon in the same manner for Shahbaz Taseer, we could have retrieved the chap.

Be it the ISI or the ISI tattoo; fun is bound to follow. As much as I appreciate the concept, I highly doubt Veena’s intellectual ability to get the pun intended. The thought gets one nauseous but I am pretty sure Mansoor Ijaz would have carried it off better.

Anyway, Veena’s FHM photo-shoot caused a bigger internet hit spike than OBL’s raid. That says a lot about people who would otherwise take a bashing at her at the drop of a hat (in their defense; it wasn’t just the hat this time around). This nation has developed schizophrenic tendencies of tilting at the windmills. In a country where 57 children die every day of a disease as preventable and treatable as measles, women are raped and persecuted at a ticking clock frequency and religious fanaticism eats right up the rear; Veena’s skin showing is the most discussable television subject. Yup, Veena is the new found psychedelic recreational drug for our people.

With clerics and media going berserk on this side of the border and a looming visa expiry on that, disappearing was a pretty sensible thing to pull off. Despite that, Veena Malik is no Bridget Bardot and FHM is no beach in Cannes. Whatever she intended to achieve from the feat went pretty haywire.