Wasi Zafar

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Muhammad Wasi Zafar, also known as Qanooni Zafar (born January 12, 1949), is a Pakistani politician, serving as the Minister of Human Rights. He was born in the city of Multan. He is a lawyer and became a member of the National Assembly on a PML(Q) ticket.

He is a member of PML(Q), the party supporting President Pervaiz Musharraf. His claim to fame is being exposed in some really embarrassing situations. These include repeatedly abusing reporters and beating up (along with his son) an elderly person at Karachi airport who did not want the law minister and his son bypassing a security check.[citation needed]

His most well known gaffe was in response to a certain article entitled "Law minister facing long arm of the law?". With his convoluted understanding of English, long arm became big arm, which led to the following expletives: "Big arm in you...big arm in your family....you say big arm in law minister...law minister will insert big arm in family of that man who say big arm in law minister". This was done whilst on a VoA radio show, and the clip was circulated across video blogs [1].

Wasi Zafar's latest escapade is hailed by many as his worst yet. He was caught on camera, raising a leg and scratching his crotch area during a Geo TV political talk show. Even though the program was recorded before airing this incident was not edited out. Interestingly, this talk show also included the same journalist, Ansar Abbasi, involved with Wasi Zafar in the 'big arm' talk.[citation needed]

Since the infamous 'Big Arm' comment, which was directed towards a journalist, the Law Minister's mannerisms and anecdotes have gathered a large public, and a more subtle media following with talk show host Hamid Mir once apologising on air to one of his guests for having to mention the Hon. law minister's name.[citation needed]

Zafar was unable to run in the February 2008 parliamentary election as a PML(Q) candidate and instead ran as an independent; however, he was badly defeated.[1]

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  1. ^ Nirupama Subramanian, "Big heads roll in Pakistan poll", The Hindu, February 20, 2008.

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