The Pakistani Spectator

It’s a slow day in Islamabad. The sun  is beating down, and  the streets are deserted.  Times are tough, everybody  is in debt, and  everybody  lives on credit…..

On this particular day a rich Pakistani from USA  is driving  through town. He stops at the Dreamland motel and lays a $100 bill on  the desk saying he
wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night…

As soon as the man walks upstairs, the  owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher(Kasai).

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt  to the Livestock farmer.

The Livestock farmer takes the $100 and  heads off to pay his bill  at the supplier  of feed and fuel.

The guy at the Farmer’s Co-op takes  the $100 and runs to pay his debt  to the local Mujra dancer, who has also been facing hard  times and  has  had
to  offer her “services” on credit.

The Mujra dancer rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the  hotel owner.

The hotel proprietor then places the  $100 back on the counter  so therich traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down  the stairs, picks  up the $100 bill,  states that the rooms are not  satisfactory, pockets  the money,
and  leaves  town.

No one produced anything. No one  earned anything.

However, the whole town is now out of  debt and now looks  to the future with  a lot more optimism..

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how  the Pakistani Government is conducting  business today.