Discussing the level of the debates and the legislators as we came out of the galleries to relax in the cafeteria, a chat with some politicians from Faisalabad seemed quite amusing as it focused on how Rana Sanaullah decided to become a ‘turncoat’ to join the Muslim League when Benazir Bhutto ignored his requests for a party ticket during the provincial elections. But, some Nawaz Leaguers soon
crashed the conversation to defend the ‘turncoat’ issue.

Both the parties entered into a heated debate by forgetting their intellectual discourse and the reporters got a glimpse of both sides of the coin, as their discussion, at best, only revealed the dark side of our polity. Since both the groups belonged to Faisalabad, therefore, despite yelling and yelping at each other, they had little choice but to admit the facts about their area-fellows.

One of them talked about Rana Sanaullah’s early days in politics when he used to deliver speeches from the platform of jihadi outfits in Faisalabad and became successful in converting everyone into staunch Deobandis. Another disclosed his abode of the “Korea bridge” where he used to hold private courts to settle local issues through force of his young goons and guns.

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