crankthskunk
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Some excerpts from the book of Reham on her first meeting/interview with Shahbaz Sharif.
Here is my input on the above paragraphs.
1- The part played by Malik. He once again is back on the independent TV, pretending that he is very "neutral" and "objective" after serving 3 years as MD of PTV. Reham called him "close ally" of Shahbaz.
2- In the piece Reham discloses that Malik was using his wife's saloon for makeup of guests at PTV. Meaning he was making money for the saloon by diverting the work from PTV, which would have been done by the artists employed by PTV. This is wastage of national resources. But when we listen to this corrupt and manipulative thug, he pretends there is no one more credible and honest than him.
3- First Reham praises the decor in the house at Model town, and how much it is close to her own heart, like the ideas were taken from her own scratch book.
4- Outrageous superlatives for Shahbaz. Probably she was seeing some other Shahbaz what we see everyday. She turned a Psychopathic compulsive liar into a hero. If you believe this you believe anything in this world.
5- Very professional Reham did full research on the projects undertaken by Shahbaz, that too in a 5 hours long drive. How astonishing. No wonder she didn't find out all the corruption done by Shahbaz. She probably also forget the fact that all the "power generation" projects undertaken by Shahbaz are proving to be inefficient and overpriced. Downright fraud is a more appropriate word for them.
6- Personal praises about Shahbaz in the above paragraphs are clever comparisons with the description of Imran Khan in earlier paragraphs.
7- The lies about the interview itself. When did Sharifs did open interviews!! The only do interviews with their selected anchors and that too after careful screening of the questions. This was particularly impossible considering Malik "A close ally of Shahbaz Sharif" was very keen to arrange everything perfectly. "He was very nervous what I would ask the CM". Anyone believes that Reham was allowed an open question interview should book a room at mental hospital.
8- Lastly praises for Salman Sharif. Didn't he do many programs on how rich Sharifs were to hide the corruption of the family!!!
All in all, complete non-sense, a hogwash.
With my eyes looking like huge tennis balls, I sat with the crew and set off for Lahore at the crack of dawn. I had joined the state tV channel in mid-July but had not started my show yet. The managing director of PTV, Mohammad Malik, had organised an interview with the Chief Minister of Punjab. The man was the backbone of the ruling party, PMLN, and the yonger brother of the PM. Anyone else would have given their right arm and a leg for this opportunity. Yet here I was, with my head full of molten lead and my eyes stinging from the tears of the night before. I felt more angry and insulted than heartbroken. Instead of catching up on my sleep, I channelled my anger into reseraching the CM. My brother used to joke that “when rEham gets angry, give her a task to do. She works like a woman possessed.” I think he may have had a point. I find it therapeutic to focus on work, and it helps get the anger out of my system. I was looking for something interesting that others may have missed but, try as I might, I struggled to find much wrong with the almost android-like, hardworking qualities of the CM.
Nevertheless, in five-hour journey, I‘d gone through all his projects in details.
Malik was a close ally of Shahbaz Sharif and was incredibly keen to get everything arranged perfectly. He was very nervous about what I would ask the CM. Malik even arranged makeup at his own wife’s salon, instead of trusting PTV makeup artists. I heaved a huge sigh of relief as the accomplished makeup girls at the salon completely covered puffiness and other signs of my childish sobbing of the night before. I switched in to professional-mode and insisted interviewing in the opulent withdrawing room.
I headed towards the Model Town residence, fully brainwashed by the propaganda of how stuck the Sharifs were. Their attitudes were often compared to Marie Antoniette’s behaviour. PTI had labelled them as the badshahs (kings).
Shehbaz Sharif was portrayed in media as a man who was prone to getting married every so often to any attractive woman he laid his eyes on. With all that negativity, I marched into a tasteful parlour. As I looked around, I saw a penchant for Faberge eggs and an obsessional attention-to-detail in the décor. It all looked familiar. I went into the powder room and did a double take at the painted basin. It seemed like someone had been consulting my décorating notes.
As we sat waiting for the CM to arrive, several people dropped in to greet the team. I was still in a bit of a daze, and slow to register that some were his close family members. Their attitude was pleasant and down to earth. A man introduced himself as “the one who was not in politics”. He joked that he was the businessman who kept earning while the family keep spending all on politics. I was later told it was the younger, Oxford-educated entrepreneur son of the CM.
The atmosphere was casual and relaxed until the CM walked in. I had my back to the entrance, but the immediate pin-drop silence suggested that the taskmaster had arrived. It was as if everyone in the room had stopped breathing. I noticed that the room suddenly emptied as everyone presumably scampered to their duties. The CM walked in with military precision. I half-expected him to snap his feet together in attention. He greeted me in a very brisk, professional manner. We sat down. The makeup artist attempted to take the shine off the CM’s face, but this man, with his silvery grey hair and unusually long fingers, dismissed him. He had no time to waste. We jumped straight into the interview with no chit-chat and no deliberation.
The older man kept meticulously rearranging the pen and notepad in front of him. I have discovered who my obsessional replica in the house was. Besides short water breaks, the CM answered my questions for 60 straight minutes. After the intense grilling which clearly showed my OTI tilt, we stood up. Before I could thank him, the CM surprised me by saying in a rather fatherly fashion, “Thank you, very tough interview young lady but I appreciated it.”
With that he was gone. No sleazy overtures. No arrogance. He was just brisk, clinical and professional to the core. This was clearly a non-nonsense type who with many other pressing work engagements. As soon as he left, Iheard people breathing again. And that was it. Lunch and refreshments had been arranged for us but I left immediately after the interview. My boss stayed back to edit out a few bits, presumably to try and soften the interview. But I had been on fire and it wasn’t possible to soften the relentless 60-minute onlaught. Besides, I thought the CM had an answer for all my quesitons. The interview was a huge hit with both PMLN and PTI viewers. Ironically, I got compliments for looking beautiful. No one had noticed my swollen eyes. Everyone liked my cover up.
Here is my input on the above paragraphs.
1- The part played by Malik. He once again is back on the independent TV, pretending that he is very "neutral" and "objective" after serving 3 years as MD of PTV. Reham called him "close ally" of Shahbaz.
2- In the piece Reham discloses that Malik was using his wife's saloon for makeup of guests at PTV. Meaning he was making money for the saloon by diverting the work from PTV, which would have been done by the artists employed by PTV. This is wastage of national resources. But when we listen to this corrupt and manipulative thug, he pretends there is no one more credible and honest than him.
3- First Reham praises the decor in the house at Model town, and how much it is close to her own heart, like the ideas were taken from her own scratch book.
4- Outrageous superlatives for Shahbaz. Probably she was seeing some other Shahbaz what we see everyday. She turned a Psychopathic compulsive liar into a hero. If you believe this you believe anything in this world.
5- Very professional Reham did full research on the projects undertaken by Shahbaz, that too in a 5 hours long drive. How astonishing. No wonder she didn't find out all the corruption done by Shahbaz. She probably also forget the fact that all the "power generation" projects undertaken by Shahbaz are proving to be inefficient and overpriced. Downright fraud is a more appropriate word for them.
6- Personal praises about Shahbaz in the above paragraphs are clever comparisons with the description of Imran Khan in earlier paragraphs.
7- The lies about the interview itself. When did Sharifs did open interviews!! The only do interviews with their selected anchors and that too after careful screening of the questions. This was particularly impossible considering Malik "A close ally of Shahbaz Sharif" was very keen to arrange everything perfectly. "He was very nervous what I would ask the CM". Anyone believes that Reham was allowed an open question interview should book a room at mental hospital.
8- Lastly praises for Salman Sharif. Didn't he do many programs on how rich Sharifs were to hide the corruption of the family!!!
All in all, complete non-sense, a hogwash.
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