Pakistan, July 11 -- "What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse"-Isabel Allende, writer from Chile

A uniformed security guard of a reputed educational institute stopped a regular adjunct faculty member from entering the premises just because his parking sticker was no longer valid and they had standing instructions not to let anyone, whosoever, inside the institute if the new sticker was not displayed. Despite his pleas that he was not informed of the overnight change, the guard (probably a retired army man) kept on arguing and persisted in disallowing him from going inside even though he was getting late for his class. An apparently educated and well-mannered gentleman with a walkies-talkies ...