NAWAZ Sharif`s picture onDawn`s front page (May 13) arriving, hand in pocket, at Dilkusha Palace in Kabul, to be received by the Afghan president, is not in the best of taste.

True, pockets are there to put things into,also hands.

True, our politicians are used to having their hands in pockets, mostly the nation`s, but as for everything else there is also a time and a place for what one puts in one`s pocket.

Puttine handin pocket on occasions such as the picture depicts was neither the time nor the place for doing so.

Hand in pocket also renders one somewhat less stable, a misstep can result in a tumble. Luckily, there was no misstep by the prime minister, or that would have made for a somewhat different picture.

If the dress adviser to the prime minister cannot get him to keep his hand out of pocket, in the next order for the prime minister`s suits, he could probably detail the trousers to be without any pockets.

S. Khalid Husain Karachi