Apart
from being the best dressed lady politician to ever emerge
on our rather unfashionable political landscape, Sherry Rehman
has always been a vision on television. Perfect red lips,
immaculately kohled eyes, perfect hair and a very professional
take on the traditional shalwar kameez, she is every inch
a woman and a very progressive one too. But she is not our
hotstepper this week for those reasons, though they are important
too. We've chosen her because of the far reaching consequences
of her resignation as Information Minister.
Sherry created a media storm when she resigned, and deservedly
so because she did it to protest against the government playing
dirty with certain media networks to control the news about
the now victorious Long March. This act of Sherry's has given
the people of Pakistan something to believe in. Even conservatives,
who eyed the well-heeled Sherry with skepticism, have been
floored by her principled stand. And the awam love her now. |
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