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I have no enmity with Jamshed Dasti (should I spell it Dusty because I do not think if there is any law about spelling mistakes in this country where the 'Mitti Paao' fame Prime Minister used to say 'PAKASTAN' instead of PAKISTAN and no court ever took any suo-moto action against him) and, being an ordinary citizen of Pakistan, no grudge against mohtaram Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani.   I did not even know just who the guy was before his name started to appear in print and electronic media as a chairman of some standing committee of national assembly. He had to surrender his assembly seat under heavy pressure from the supreme court for his fake academic degree. Then I watched him, in total shock, standing with the Prime Minister during his election campaign.   His lamentable lies were proved in the court where he could not justify his educational merit.   And now the holy Prime Minister SYED Yousuf Raza Gillani has rolled up his sleeves to protect him f...

Over the top Sunday, May 23, 2010 Masood Hasan The good news is that in a few years we will be able to eliminate whatever education we have still left here and drown all the teachers so that this vice does not spread ever again. A little over a week back, Prime Minister Gilani blazed a new path for the nation when campaigning for our new national hero, Jamshaid Dasti (most babies are now named after him) in Muzaffargarh. He thundered that mere education was nothing as compared to the voice of the people.   Dasti being the shining example of that, we can now simply supplicate ourselves and burn our degrees unless these were claimed fraudulently in which case they are kosher in Pakistan . Senator Sughra Imam who was at the rally should immediately burn her Columbia University degree, file a case against her mom Chandi for sending her there and get a real degree from Dasti's supplier. The press called Dasti 'a fake degree holder' insultin...