According to a news item in DAWN (28th June, 2009), Sheikh Ala-ud-Din of PML-Q Forward Block on Saturday must have made history in the Punjab Assembly when he walked out of the house in protest against something that was never said. The offended MPA thought that his fellow parliamentarian Mohsin Leghari had insulted Lahore when he quoted from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
After that, Dr Asad Ashraf, another member of the assembly criticized Mr. Leghari for calling himself Caesar (which he hadn’t). Apparently the good doctor knew that the word caesarian (as in “caesarian sectionâ€) was derived from Caesar (who had been “ripped†from his mother’s womb). It’s good to know that there are politicians in this country who have heard of Shakespeare, leave alone quoting from his works. But then, Mr. Leghari apparently thought that all members of the Punjab Assembly are graduates in English Literature.
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