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4 January 1965, Karachi. Two days after Ayub Khan was declared the winner over Fatima Jinnah, a victory parade led by his son Gohar rolled through the neighbourhoods that had backed her. They burned. TIME counted 33 dead. The vote itself was cast by 80,000 "Basic Democrats". The public had no ballot. Ayub was Pakistan's first Field Marshal, a rank his own cabinet gave him in 1959. His son left the army as a captain in 1962. In 1963 General Motors' Karachi plant passed to Gohar's father-in-law, a retired general, and Gohar became its managing director. British diplomats wrote that the family had "mysteriously acquired a leading position in the business world in a comparatively short period of time." By 1968 his own chief economist counted 22 families owning two-thirds of the country's industry. The streets ended his rule in March 1969. Sixty-six years later, a cabinet handed the same baton out again. #AuditTheGenerals

Punjab’s new drama bill is the raw, unmasked panic of a ruling elite terrified of its own youth. They don’t give a damn about vulgarity or culture; they are desperate to muzzle open-mic poets, street qawwals, and college kids before anyone dares to name corruption, neo-colonial theft, and the military’s suffocating grip out loud. Dragging the 1876 colonial playbook into the digital age, demanding pre-cleared scripts, registered performers, vetted rehearsals, and live video feeds straight to the Arts Council for a rooftop song or a campus play is an open confession of terminal weakness: a parasitic establishment so brittle, so illegitimate, that an unscripted teenager with a microphone feels like an existential threat.