Pakistan Surgeons Use Chinese Technology for Heart Transplan

The Punjab Institute of Cardiology says it will start heart transplants using Chinese technology, as Pakistan surgeons prepare the program. The news comes amid broader sports and political commentary in CITY NOTES. Cricket seems to be going according to expectations, but other sports do not. At the recent Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for example, where one woman athlete managed a bronze in boxing, another athlete, a man, also got what he wanted, not a medal, but to disappear. Or was he inspired by the four members of the Ugandan boxing squad who also disappeared? I hope they advised him properly on what to do: the first step, it seems, is to burn your passport. That was old advice, for in this day and age, if they get your name, NADRA can trace you. I don't know about Uganda, though. Maybe for its citizens it's enough to burn your passport, Anyway, the news of our boxer disappearing raises fears of one or more of our cricketers doing the same thing. Our boys just went down to a huge defeat in the First Test against England. It's bad enough going down to an innings defeat, which means that you couldn't get as many runs in two innings as the other buys got in one. As the hapless Pakistan captain, Salman Ali Agha, said after the match: 'England outplayed us in every department.' I've noticed that that's what losing captains have got to say after every game. No one is telling the truth: we played Shan Masood. In the West Indies, he got a century in the First Test. But we still lost the match. Then he was injured, and had to be left out in the Second Test. We won the match. But he recovered for this match, and we went down with a thud, losing by an innings and 143 runs, which means a right royal thumping. The only glimmer of light was that local hero Harry Brook did not get a century, getting out for 90. Babar Azam, the new captain, stayed out of the match. Did he know something? Or was he really hurt? Bangladesh beating Australia was indeed a surprise, But normality was restored to the universe after they went down by an innings. Sri Lanka of course is working on diplomacy by going down to \india in the First Test. I wouldn't suggest a medical board. It seems that it needs an order from the Supreme Court. Like the one Imran Khan got, which led to him being taken to PIMS instead of Shifa Eye Hospital. I blame KP CM Sohail Afridi for this. His earlier talk of a Release Imran Force seems to have spooked the government, even though he had denied it in court. The government, a highly unreliable source tells me, was afraid that he was waiting for Imran to be transferred to a private hospital, following which he would burst in at the head of a group of armed men, and free Imran from durance vile. The problem is that this is exactly the sort of stunt that Imran is willing to admire. It seems that he has found in Sohail Afridi the sort of man he needed as KP CM, just as he had got in Usman Buzdar an intellectual equal. But Afridi is clearly a man of action, and after getting Imran to escape, would have taken him on a hi-speed motor chase on the Motorway, with himself at the wheel in a dash for freedom. I hear that Imran was disappointed when Trump chickened out of that brilliant plan in which Trump would have cut a hole in the roof of \\imran's cell while hanging from a helicopter. Trump refused to hang from the rope, and was not going to let anyone else do that. Speaking of freedom, it seems that the police plan for security on Independence Day worked. I mean, no one got killed while executing wheelies on a motorbike. It seems that the lads have come to understand that Independence does not include freedom from life. Freedom from life seems to be on offer at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, where they are to start heart transplants, using Chinese technology. Right. Pakistani surgeons. Chinese technology. Might as well do a wheelie. At least you'd have some fun at the end of your life.