About Tomcats

Ahsan Waheed

Billa is the local Urdu word for Tomcat. Tomcats as you know are notorious for their lack of morals, ethics and loyalty. Billa is also the nickname in Punjabi for someone with tomcat-like grey eyes and again such people are considered shifty and unreliable-wrongly of course. Tomcats are tomcats and people are people-the Billa epithet notwithstanding.

These days we are being regaled by the unseemly sights and sounds of people spilling their guts in front of TV anchors employed by a commercial and sensation oriented media. In fact there seems to be a competition of sorts among the anchors 'to do more'. What is amazing is that the Army fighting and dying on the western border is forgotten as is the fact that a resurgent TTP has struck thrice in three days with major attacks and that Al Qaeda has struck in the heart of the security apparatus of Saudi Arabia. Nobody is analyzing these developments.

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