Insane or inane?

Spirited speech: Mohammad Safdar speaking to journalists after a court granted him bail, outside a court in Karachi. — AP

BEING a bit of a geek growing up I spent a lot of time reading comic books, mostly superhero stuff and the like. Now, most of these heroes were white and almost always American and that did make me sad because as a brownish child living in Pakistan, I wanted my own home-grown superhero.

Now older, if not wiser, it has dawned on me that we do in fact have our own superhero and he is none other than Commander Own-Goal, accompanied by his trusty sidekick, Captain Hit-Wicket. Like Thor, the good commander carries a magic hammer with two special properties. One is that whoever wields the hammer of Commander Own-Goal sees everything in the world as a nail.