The images of the assassination of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat are still fresh in my mind. I remember how the assassin had shouted at Hosni Mubarak to step aside as he had come to kill the Pharaoh.
He could never have imagined that Mubarak would soon become the next Pharaoh who would rule for three decades and with an iron fist!
As a Pakistani I have always been used to the luxury of being critical.
People here have said all kinds of things about their own tyrants and very few have been diplomatic. But no one was ever picked up by the secret police or jailed for insulting the president or the prime minister.
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