LT Gen Jamshed Gulzar Kyani - KIss & Tell Stories

TV Anchorman is a good listener (F Post 06 June 08)

While watching Dr Shahid Masood on Geo TV with Lt Gen (r) Kyani, one realises how good a listener Dr SM is. He was completely spellbound by the General who was given a golden opportunity to narrate one-sided tales.

So many of the retired Generals are suddenly becoming pious and patriotic democrats that I feel tempted to quote a Persian couplet:

Dar jawani tauba kardan shewa-e-paighambri
Waqt-e-peeri gurg-e-zalim me shawad parhaizgaar

در جوانی توبہ کردن شیوہِ پیغمبری
وقتِ پیری گرگِ ظالم می شوَد پرہیزگار

Simply translated, it means: To be pious in one’s youth is the style of prophets. In the old age, even a cruel wolf gives up his cruelty.

Khalid A
London UK