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Buzkashi
(literally means “goat-grabbing”) is an ancient game,
national sports of Afghanistan and also played in many parts of North
West Pakistan. It’s also called wildest game on earth.
Here ‘Buzkashi’ is a
metaphor of Pakistani politics, where every leader grabs for control of
the country and every stronger wants to rule the weaker ones.
Pakistan has had a long
history of military dictatorships, and milarty has been trying to
institutionalize its role in politics and governance of the country for
last two decades.
So this painting depicts ‘One
Man’s show’ of Military Dictator of Pakistan, Perverz Musharaff sitting
on a presidency throne and his imperialism is shown with four arms like
Hindu god Shiv.
The basic constitutional
structure of the country evolving around his regime; army generals are
celebrating ‘martial law’ by dancing and wearing Hawaiian sandals.
The world’s seventh nuclear
state in spite of her national debt over forty billion dollars and
spending on defense budget over 3.5 billion dollars a year. Here goat is
symbolized as innocent public.
Beneath the painting,
internal political rivals conspires against military dictatorship,
nuclear scientist Dr Qadeer Khan and Qazi Hassain Ahmad (president of
relgio-political parties) are disguising in animal skins.
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