It Happens only in Pakistan....
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You will wait... let the VIP pass, all that Black-Bullet-Proof shine with sunroof's and the motorcade aaah!! what a wonderful site. Is it a security concern, or a power show-off? Traffic remains hampered daily due to the VIP movement. Motorists are stopped on the barriers on the route of the VIPs at least for 30 to 40 minutes. I got late for the meeting today - due to the same reason, they completely separated Lahore for 30mins. No body could cross from one side of lahore to the other as nobody was allowed even near the middle artery of Lahore; The Mall Road.
They simply do not care, there are routines people follow: children need to go to and from school, people go to work, old people may need to get from one place to the other and many of us, for various reasons, may be on our way to hospital. We might also be working within certain deadlines: somebody might have to get a document attested in order to file it the next day, somebody might have to go to the bank to get money for a payment that evening etc etc. For completing these sorts of everyday tasks we all rely on some sort of predictability in city life and routines. But then, in breezes a so-called VIP and blocks the traffic for miles just so his cavalcade can whizz by on a clear road. And meanwhile the rest of us sweat it out stuck in a maddening traffic jam. Pretty disgusting really. We then try to vent our anger by screaming at the scrawny police men who have to stand along the 'VIP route' for hours, and who are absolutely not responsible for the situation. Sad.
You will wait... let the VIP pass, all that Black-Bullet-Proof shine with sunroof's and the motorcade aaah!! what a wonderful site. Is it a security concern, or a power show-off? Traffic remains hampered daily due to the VIP movement. Motorists are stopped on the barriers on the route of the VIPs at least for 30 to 40 minutes. I got late for the meeting today - due to the same reason, they completely separated Lahore for 30mins. No body could cross from one side of lahore to the other as nobody was allowed even near the middle artery of Lahore; The Mall Road.
They simply do not care, there are routines people follow: children need to go to and from school, people go to work, old people may need to get from one place to the other and many of us, for various reasons, may be on our way to hospital. We might also be working within certain deadlines: somebody might have to get a document attested in order to file it the next day, somebody might have to go to the bank to get money for a payment that evening etc etc. For completing these sorts of everyday tasks we all rely on some sort of predictability in city life and routines. But then, in breezes a so-called VIP and blocks the traffic for miles just so his cavalcade can whizz by on a clear road. And meanwhile the rest of us sweat it out stuck in a maddening traffic jam. Pretty disgusting really. We then try to vent our anger by screaming at the scrawny police men who have to stand along the 'VIP route' for hours, and who are absolutely not responsible for the situation. Sad.
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