Ever mindful of his legacy, the current dictator of Pakistan is ordering a soppy political memoir ghost-written about how he looked deep into the eyes of Dubya and saw a man he could do business with:
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is writing a political memoir, focusing on the war on terrorism and his relationship with the Bush administration as a key ally. The memoir is to be published by Simon & Schuster and will probably appear in bookstores next fall…
No word on whether it’ll bear any resemblance to Shame, Salman Rushdie’s jagged satire of Pakistani politics with a paper-thin fictional veneer to protect the guilty. Here’s what it will cover:
“He’s going to cover the war on terror from Afghanistan in the 1970s and 1980s up to the hunt for Osama bin Laden…”
Mr. Musharraf, writer’s block doesn’t last three and a half years. How about penning the ending to that story?
I just have to ask: fif you intentionally put the Putin reference in the article writeup, Manish?
(Bush once said of Putin, the Russian Prez: “When I looked deep into Putin’s eyes, I saw his soul”. One of several touchy-feely statements said when they first met)
Please. Haven’t I enough personal embarassment to deal with, without him coming up as a literary figure? No wonder we started excluding him from the family dinners.
Title of Musharraf memoir: “Yes, Saab. Righ Away, Saab. Whatever you say, Saab. Can I please keep my job?”
New Title for the book: Zia, Butto and Me: Tales of Karachi City.
Yes, nice catch!
Why doesn’t he just start a blog like everyone else? musharrafarama.blogspot.com
February 4, 2005
“The other day, I had an absolute terrible day. First of all, the ISI started giving me all this shit. You would think they run this place. After the mess they got me in with the Taliban and the U.S. (see my post from a couple years ago), you’d think they would back off on this shit now. Fuckin’ punks.
And to top it all off, my irritable bowl syndrome is acting up again. Allah!”
Speak for yourself. Some of us have writers block that lasts a decade!
Let’s not drag your sex life into this.