"The British Virgin Islands (BVI) Attorney General responded to the Joint Investigation Team's (JIT) request for information and I ask you: why did he? I mean the UK Home Office never responded to seven requests by the JIT, where incidentally Theresa May ruled the roost and now the roost is ruled by one of her very trusted..."
"Trusted or trustee?"
"Don't be facetious. Anyway, you and I both know that the Britain we knew when we studied there, and loved and respected is no more with such poor leadership, I mean the handling of the MQM London Chief's case on the one hand and the case of our Prime Minister's children on the other defies imagination - the former is accused of many murders and threat to murder others who oppose him, I mean talk of taking hate to an extreme, and the PM has not committed murder just perhaps some innovative financial jugglery and..."
"Hey, don't you be facetious."
"All the Prime Minister wants is to stay in power and his daughter to remain his heir..."
"Do you think there is a link between BVI and the British government?"
"Well, BVIs chief executive officer is the governor, who is appointed by the Queen and she appoints whoever the UK Prime Minister chooses. The governor then appoints the premier, who presides over a cabinet comprising of four other ministers and hello there! The ex offico attorney general is a member of that cabinet."
"OK, now the British government is probably telling our Prime Minister that it has no control over BVI like it had no control over the Scotland yard investigation but that's hard to believe. We have Governors in Sindh and Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa vigorously defending the man who appointed them and..."
"I heard the Prime Minister tried calling the ruler of Dubai because the Ministry of Justice UAE also responded to the JIT, but never got through."
"Ah indeed...Yemen and Qatar..."
"Back off, India has offered to recommence the stalled dialogue with us, including on Kashmir, and this may sound the death knell of the political career of our Prime Minister."
"But then I can argue that that is precisely what Modi wanted."
"I give up - our sub-continent leaders are too difficult to read I tell you."
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