After six decades....

For over six decades, covering the British Raj, the Pakistani Hakumat, and some of our own, I have been keenly watching the political chess in this remote corner of the earth.

Here, to say the least, Zulfiqer Ali Bhutto gets the biggest reception of his life from the very people he loathed and, then invited by destiny, kisses the hangman's rope in his own holy land less than a decade later. Here presidents are killed as if it is a game of fun.

To me, Prof. Badruddoza Chowdhury is the only lucky person so far who survived many ups and downs and now, after discarding the president's cloak, is beginning to enjoy the pleasure of presiding over his own destiny.