Owais Mughal
Following photo is taken from MB’s blog here.
The image is a cloth banner wishing ‘Happy Indpendence Day to all Pakistanis except those who habitually change their political loyalties (lotay) and those who have regularly plundered national wealth (luteray).’ As you can see the banner message is issued by the PML(N) leader Shahbaz Sharif’s secretariat. I guess Pakistani streets are always a great place to find political commentary!
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Really funny post. Thanks Owais bhai for sharing it. We all know that “is hammam main to sab hi nangay hain” but I dont understand that why do they underestimate the common public.After all we know that who is good or bad.
IMAO nobody should get a second chance.
This is totally unrelated..However…has to do with Nawaz Sharif…
Anyone ever heard the story that He tried to get a flight carrying him to make an unscheduled stopover in Turkey because he wanted to eat a Doner Kebab…. :)….and he had to be convinced otherwise
true or not…still a hillarious thought…
dear bd, lota is a vessel with a long spout used for carrying water for functions like making wazoo . In modern times we have lotas or lotay made of plastic or aluminium with a base, but in old times the lota was usually made of brass or copper without a base or ‘painda’to stand on. it was called ‘be-painday ka lota’ — a term also used for someone without consistensy or conviction. this is where the term lota derives to describe our so called political leaders without conviction or purpose. they tilt to whatever side is ‘heavy’.
being a lota is a “necessity” in our country because most of the so-called politicians are actually in politics for their own narrow and personal interests and being in power can fulfil their needs.
another term which describes them more aptly is ‘tota chashm’ — or ‘parrot-eyed’if you will.
personally i feel that politicians have been unfairly singled out for this epithet. in a culture where positions are sought out for the sake of high office rather than as a means to achieve a higher goal, what else can you expect?
I recall that during the height of the political horse trading and ‘Age of the Lotas’…HERALD Pakistan had published a listing of Lota awards. There is one receipt whose name just stuck out. The Golden Lota award went to someone who is now a self proclaimed ‘expert’ on Pakistan and surprisingly is a part of the faculty on International Relations in one of the universities on the East coast of the US. Besides the Lota, this gentleman would have made the Pendulum proud.
Well thats a nice pic and Shahbaz Sharief just forget that ppl of Pakistan also count him and his bro as LUTERA.
As if Pakistanis will name something after a scientific observation but it seems it may be true in this case. :)
BD and others:
There is even a wikipedia entry about lotas (including of the political kind) :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lota_%28vessel%29
the banner should have included a mention of Mullahs along with Lotas and Lootaras!!!..
just to be fair now :)