Adil Najam
This video of Mr. Asif Ali Zardari losing his cool during a speech and angrily shouting “Shut Up” to someone in the audience has been making the rounds.
If authentic, and it seems to be, the video is striking, but also sad, to see. There is not much that one can say by way of comment. Such behavior is embarrassing for any politician, but especially for the President of a country.
In fairness, I should add that I have not (yet) been able to find any information on the context of this: where was this, what did the person in the audience say (it was probably a pretty demeaning thing in itself), and – most importantly – what did Mr. Zardari say immediately after this.
I think the last of the above is especially important. It does disturb me that in all the versions of the video I found on the net the video ends abruptly after he utters the killer words: “Shut Up.”
I certainly hope that his immediate reaction was to stop, realize his mistake, and apologize. If he has not yet, he should.
pretty pathetic show, I’d still rank it behind Aamir Liaquat Hussain’s video I saw a few posts ago!
I cannot say I am surprised. What else do we expect from him.
But part of me hopes this is a fake. Whatever damage this does to him it does more damage to Pakistan and its image.
Pathetic performance is all I can say.
Adil sahab, I like your optimism. You expect the chief beneficiary of NRO to say sorry for asking someone to shut up :)
Does anyone have a longer video that shows what he says after this and where the speech was?
What a sad and pathetic display by our President.