Gul Jokes

GENERAL Gul Hasan who served both under Mr M. A. Jinnah and Zulfi Bhutto recounts the two men's behaviour at a railway level crossing and at a traffic signal in his Memoirs:

'On one of these drives, the rail crossing at Malir was shut and our car stopped. I looked around and saw that the train was some distance away, so I went to the gatekeeper and asked him to let us go through, of course, telling him who was in the car.

He obliged. I returned to my seat next to the driver, Aziz, and told him to move on. He answered that the Quaid-i-Azam had told him to stay put. Just then the Governor-General told me to go and tell the gatekeeper to close the gate. I did as I was bid and resumed my seat.

He then said, "Gul, do you know why I told the driver not to move the car?" I replied,' No, sir.' He said the reason was simple: "If I do not obey the law, how should I expect others to do so?" This brief statement affected me more...

GENERAL Gul Hasan in his Memoirs has one amusing episode about the famous wrestler Gama who migrated from Patiala to Pakistan in 1947.

'When everyone had eaten, there were some delegations waiting to see the Governor-General. The first of these was headed by Gama, our champion wrestler. Khawaja Nizamuddin talked to him for a bit and then moved on, leaving it to Mudie to sort out his problems. I was with Mudie.

Gama told him he could not make ends meet, leave alone attempting to keep himself in shape for any tournaments that might be arranged. In the princely State of Patiala, where he had been, he was given a handsome salary and all his nourishment was provided free of cost.

Mudie casually asked him how much it amounted to. Gama replied he did not know the cost but he was provided with the following items daily: six gallons of milk, an equal amount of purified butter, and a long catalogue of other such devastating items in equally devastating more...