Some say only he can save Pakistan, while others hotly refute this claim – but again, he has proved to be part of Brand Pakistan. Like most people in Pakistan, controversy surrounds this ex-cricketer-cum-charity worker- turned politician. Now, decades later, set against the beautiful backdrop of the Margalla mountains, we cannot imagine Pakistan without ‘this sylvan city’, as writer Shobha De put it. It was just a twinkle in Field Marshal Ayub’s eye in the 50s. But etymology aside, did you know that it is home to the first discovered side-swimming cetacean? And like love, it is blind. The words ‘India’, ‘Hindu’ and ‘Hindustan’ are all derived from this river, cleaving Pakistan right down the centre. Ask the neighbours who came for World Cup cricket and were given free meals at restaurants, or the 1.6 million Afghan refugees in the country, clocking in at the largest number of the home-deprived in the world – or, for that matter, ask any foreigner who is invited to a Pakistani home. We’re only mentioning it because we believe the Gandasa culture has taken root in our society – except the villains are so much smoother!
Its iconic actors were Sultan Rahi and Mustapha Qureishi.
The infamous film Maula Jatt paved the way for Gandasa culture – a new action-based Lollywood genre which gained dominance over conventional romantic trends in films. Culture Ministry, please make a museum in Islamabad to salvage these treasures! We are lucky to have so much of it – a friend from Mardan claims one statue was used as a bridge to span a narrow stream in her father’s lands. What resulted was magnificent statuary in stone and terracotta. Some Greeks remained and intermarried, and their influence carried on into the Buddhist culture. Thousands of years ago, the army of Alexander the Great came to what is now Pakistan, and returned home after their battle with the Molloi near Multan.
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