Pakistan is doing well on the coronavirus front, much to the befuddlement of all. Hard to say if it will last, but for now.
In the meantime, I happened to be at the birth of a meme. One of the people I follow on Twitter lives in Karachi and with the devastating monsoon rain there yesterday he was driving around making short films of the flooded streets of Clifton and Defence, so was a series of films: Sunset Boulevard, Gizri Avenue, the Gizri graveyard, a giraffe peeping over someone’s back wall…
This has gone viral. Someone one-upped it, though, with a video of stopping at a petrol pump in Lahore’s Defence and a lioness popping its head out of the car in front.
I don’t understand how the private trade in wild animals is permitted. Well I understand, because no one cares about animals in Pakistan and a number of political leaders like to keep tigers etc in their farmhouses. But still.