President Asif Ali Zardari turned preacher in South Punjab, counseling PTI’s Imran Khan to reframe his prison stint as devotional time rather than drudgery. The veiled barb, splashed across Pakistani press like Dawn, urges stoicism over sobs.
Zardari outlined a leader’s sacred obligation: safeguard party and public, jail be damned. He mocked Khan’s litany of 18-month laments – painful eyes, absent milk – branding them unleaderly. ‘Sacrifice demands courage,’ he declared.
Personal testimony sealed the advice: Zardari’s 14 years incarcerated, riddled with ordeals, fortified by faith. ‘Jail equals worship; its pleas are divine,’ he proclaimed to rapt listeners.
Workers got marching orders too – embrace arrests boldly. Zardari recommitted to Pakistan’s upliftment, holding office till triumph, eyeing PPP’s supermajority and Bilawal’s premiership.
Khan’s camp buzzes with health scares. Parliament protests rage as Salman Safdar, court emissary, details post-jail visit horrors: right eye down to 15% vision. This clash epitomizes Pakistan’s enduring power struggles.