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By Huma Imtiaz 13 January 2010 5 Comments

Public Massages

While I can claim to be a liberal, I, like many others, was shocked to see the Pakistan Railways offering massages – that too in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Now, the public body is known for its inefficient service, delays and, sadly, even horrific train crashes in recent history which might explain why the train in the ad is on fire. But since that doesn’t seem to be enough for them to handle, they took it upon themselves to offer the 16-crore-strong population massages. We bet there are some very tired employees at Pakistan Railways at the moment.

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Seema said:

Newsline’s new website is wonderful. I have been reading the magazine since Razia Bhatti started it and it is great to see new writers like Huma Imtiaz and other follow her footsteps by pointing out follies of government with humor not anger.

# 14 January 2010 at 5:42 am

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# 14 January 2010 at 11:38 am

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# 14 January 2010 at 1:26 pm

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# 14 January 2010 at 4:25 pm

Hamza said:

You know, with their reputation for incompetence, many Karachites have a knee jerk reaction to anything KESC says. Still, having said that, this is actually a decent ad, doesn’t appear to have any typos, and does appear to promote a more sustainable lifestyle. What’s wrong with it? Putting it in the same category as the hillarious Agha Siraj Durrani ad might be a bit unfair.

# 22 January 2010 at 4:42 am