The authorship for all this change, good or bad, must be credited to Musharraf, just as the burgeoning private TV market, or increased representation to women in the National Assembly are all his doing. But, as Shakespeare said, the evil that men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones. People forget that it was Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who banned booze and declared Qadianis non-Muslims in the competition for religious radicalism thrust on him by the 1977 elections.
During the 1972 Simla Summit, Piloo Mody, Bhutto’s friend from Bombay’s Cathedral School and Berkeley, called on his old buddy. "Zulfie, I can understand your bringing your own Scotch to Simla, but surely you could have had Indian soda." Bhutto quipped, "Piloo! You’ve forgotten: Scotch tastes best with Schweppes."
