A joke is often narrated as under. A house servant once told his master in a huff, Sir please increase my salary or otherwise.. Despite the ominous 'otherwise in the unfinished sentence, his salary was not raised. After some time, the servant again told his master, Please increase my salary otherwise... Nothing happened again. This kept on for sometime before one day his mater asked indignantly, What would you do otherwise. The servant meekly said Otherwise? I will keep working on the same salary. The MQM has protested a lot recently against the hike in price of electricity and have also said the ominous and unfinished 'otherwise often enough but one gets the impression that the prices of electricity are here to stay just as MQM too is here an in the cabinet. These noises they are making are just eyewash, a way of telling the public they are fighting for it. Come what may, they would remain in the coalition. The pickings are too good to leave. -SALAHUDDIN GHAZI, Dera Nawab, June 9.