Trash Talk.

It is never wise to shoot off your mouth against the boss on the first day of the job. It is a bitter lesson that Anthony Scaramucci learnt when he was fired from the office of Communication Director by the Trump administration less than a week after his appointment for using 'colourful language'. It is a lesson that many unfortunate workers have learned after getting let go for criticising their workplace on social media publicly.

This same tragedy has befallen Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chief Mustafa Kamal, who might have set a record for how quickly he was able to lose his position. After Kamal had held a press conference where he had said that he was willing to work to dispose off the city's garbage and clear the city within three months, Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar, despite having his differences with Kamal in the past, issued an order the same day and appointed Kamal the Project Director Garbage 'on a voluntary basis'. In what may be the strangest demonstration of gratitude, Mustafa Kamal held another press conference where he, while accepting the offer, stated that by issuing this order, the mayor - who belongs to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), a party that Kamal's PSP is in competition against - had accepted his defeat. Kamal made his case worse by arguing that the MQM should...