This piece in the BBC was just hilarious, though at the end of the day a sad commentary on things in Pakistan (and very reminiscent of things in Bangladesh). Best quote:

The other day, some of the top army generals finished a hard day’s work at a conference in Islamabad and decided they’d earned a bit of entertainment.

Buoyed by their own spontaneity, they had that evening’s sold-out performance of the musical Bombay Dreams cancelled for ticket-paying patrons, and enjoyed an exclusive viewing of Pakistani girls dancing to Indian music director AR Rehman’s tunes.

That’s freedom! Freedom to steal the show, in this case.

[Bonus: Responding an earlier edition of the Best Line of the week series, Fugstar   (whose blog is an interesting read) complained about the inadequacy of comparing Imam Bukhari to Thomas Aquinas. Good point, Fugstar, but it might be a little off-target. My response:

You would be right, Fugstar, if the comparison was about functions. Then Mr. Bukhari - the collector of ahadith - would not be like Mr. Aquinas. But the comparison was really more about their prominent positions in their respective canons. AmalA might be comparing apples to bananas - but at least she’s comparing fruits instead of comparing bananas to creepy crawly critters the way the NYTimes article was…

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 [OK back to work, or something like it....]