It is said that the largest Mac Donald’s in the world in located on the beach at Seaview, Karachi. I’ve been there and it sits right at the shores edge. From here you can see the huge tower of water that shoots up into the sky from an island rock.

And on certain holidays you can watch fireworks that color the night at the ocean’s edge.

Not far down the beach there is camel riding and on the other end there are polo matches on the sand.

Did you know that the great horse game “polo” was invented in the high mountains of Pakistan? Well, here in Karachi, they play it on the beaches and the horses are some of the most outstanding creatures on the planet. Their riders are mostly made up of tall muscular Patans. They are the famous tribal men who have since Alexander The Great ruled the northern frontier.

Having a Big Mac or a Mac Arabian sandwich and watching polo twenty feet in front of you is something you won’t forget. And the pictures you take home to show your friends will be the envy of your community.

Our history tells us that Yahya Khan had no intention of holding fair elections, as he kept taking legal/illegal measures till the last moment for keeping his grip on power strong, but meanwhile, such a wave of people’s awakening swept through both the East and West Pakistan that the results came out quite contrary to the expectations. Had the constitution and the laws were adhered to at that time and the people’s mandate was not derided, then Pakistan would never have broken.

The question presently is again the same whether elections would be held on February 18 or like the past, some blunder would again be repeated and the elections would be put off or elections would be held, but the people’s mandate would once more be scorned off and such ways for making possible the decisions contrary to the wishes of the people would be adopted.

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