Another PAWN down...

In the game of chess there are 6 type of pieces used whose points and privileges vary from each other. The King has maximum of 200 points and pawn has minimum of 1 point. The king is only 1 and most valuable while pawns are more in number but least valuable. There are times in game when pawn are sacrificed to save the king/queen or any other more valuable piece. But "after the game King and pawn go into the same box" either in both situations winning or losing.

This proverb leads us to its distressful meaning where lies the factual power of this saying King may refer to our rulers, pawns are the people and box is coffin where every one has to go after the game and there will be no difference or inequality among king or pawn thus proving "death is a great equalizer" or a temporary equal state exist during prayers after that status prevails

EK HI SAF MEIN KHARE HO GAYE MAHMOOD-O –AYAZ
NA KOI BANDA RAHA NA KOI BANDA NAWAZ
BANDA-O, SAHEB-O, MUHTAJ-O, GHANI EK HUWE,
TERI SARKAR MEIN AAYE TO SABHI EK HUWE

It is seen that for past few years pawns of Pakistan are facing the menace of so called terrorism and killing many innocent pawns during this span but in a recent incident that took place in Karachi near Benazir Bhutto park on 8 June 2011. The unarmed youth Sarfraz who was a student of matric class was killed by rangers, who accuse the victim of theft and involvement in criminal activities judged merciless on the spot and shot him two bullets. It is a bizarre situation that the people who are appointed to protect the people start killing them result in uprising among the Pakistani pawns, even in chess white king cannot strike white pawn "NOT ALLOWED". Similar incident took place few days back when FC men killed five Chechen people brutally, and a journalist Saleem Shahzad found dead near Islamabad who was coming for an interview at a local tv station (duniya) was kidnapped and found dead near Mandi Bahauddin. Shahzad had complained about being threatened by Pakistan (ISI) agency.

Pawns of Pakistan will face this music until and unless they select their king wisely on merit, at a moment the king of Pakistan have negative 200 points with a fabulous corrupt history and sarcastic, philosophical smile. The game will finish and the status of pieces does not matter as we think it does, perhaps there are some other elements that will give king and pawns a value and purpose. The game will end soon then comes the box so get real...

Author
WAQAS RAFI