"I study his pink, manicured fingers, the fingers of a man who has never had to do any real work. One look at his skin and you can tell he has been fed on a steady diet of bootleg Scotch whisky, chicken korma and an endless supply of his agency's safe-house whores. Look into his sunken cobalt-blue eyes and you can tell he is the kind of man who picks up a phone, makes a long-distance call and a bomb goes off in a crowded bazaar. He probably waits outside a house at midnight in his Corolla with its headlights switched off while his men climb the wall and rearrange the lives of some hapless civilians. Or, as I know from personal experience, he appears quietly at funerals after accidental deaths and unexplained suicides and wraps things up with a neat little statement, takes care of any loose ends, saves you the agony of autopsies and the foreign press speculating about decorated colonels swinging from ceiling fans. He is a man who runs the world with a packet of Dunhills, a gold lighter and an unregistered car."
The above quote refers to the mass corruption which has happened in Pakistan for a long time. It displays the fact how a few people in power can have so much power that they may be able to manipulate domestic politics with one phone call.
The reason why this quote fits perfectly with the book A Case of Exploding Mangoes is because; it was Zia who openly encouraged such a hierarchy of power, who created Terrorist agencies within Pakistan and supplied them with money, arms and training and Power. He is the one who led path of such corruption, where one man can have such great power.. with one phone call he can decide the fate of a few hundred people.
Still the Neo-Zia Politicians and the agencies he created such as the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipa Sahaba and especially the ISI have led a genocide within Pakistan target killing 2000 Civilians in one calendar year in one city "Karachi", and not to mention other parts of Pakistan such as Quetta, Para Chanar and Gilgit.
The above quote refers to the mass corruption which has happened in Pakistan for a long time. It displays the fact how a few people in power can have so much power that they may be able to manipulate domestic politics with one phone call.
The reason why this quote fits perfectly with the book A Case of Exploding Mangoes is because; it was Zia who openly encouraged such a hierarchy of power, who created Terrorist agencies within Pakistan and supplied them with money, arms and training and Power. He is the one who led path of such corruption, where one man can have such great power.. with one phone call he can decide the fate of a few hundred people.
Still the Neo-Zia Politicians and the agencies he created such as the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipa Sahaba and especially the ISI have led a genocide within Pakistan target killing 2000 Civilians in one calendar year in one city "Karachi", and not to mention other parts of Pakistan such as Quetta, Para Chanar and Gilgit.