A grave hazard.

IN these stressful times, all distractions are welcome. According to a recent report, carried by this paper, the Pakistan National Heart Association - curiously abbreviated as 'Panah' - has asked the country's electronic media regulator to ban all coverage of the honourable Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. Apparently, the former federal minister is an overlooked risk to the general well-being and good health of our youth. Strangely, Panah's problem isn't with Mr Rashid's usually heartburn-inducing worldviews; it is the seductive imagery of the ex-minister 'waving his cigar' on our TV screens that the association wants Pemra to shelter impressionable young minds from. 'Due to his action of waving the cigar, our young generation may think that Sheikh Rashid Ahmed became the federal minister just because of the use of cigar and also suppose that it is the symbol of personality and they should also start smoking,' Panah general secretary Sanaullah Ghumman warns in his letter to the regulator. A sobering concern indeed.

Panah is not the first to be so gravely annoyed with Mr...