Who is exasperated?
MR Ayaz Amir in his Islamabad Diary (April 25) comes to the conclusion that Gen Musharraf will be the loser if he sends the National Assembly packing home on his failure to come to an understanding with the opposition on the LFO. What the general said was that he would address only a civilized assembly. He said this because our graduate MNAs behaved in a most uncivilized manner while protesting against the LFO. Never in the history of the National Assembly have the members of the opposition stood in their seats and slammed their leather files on the desk for two-and-a-half hours, shouting that the LFO and Musharraf must go. This may be expected only from schoolgoing children and not from the lawmakers. Its about time our parliamentarians learnt to behave as responsible legislators. This was indeed an act of desperation. So, it was only fair for the president to refuse to attend an assembly of unruly persons who, out of exasperation, could take extreme measures and bring a bad name to t
