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"You say tomato and I say tomaato."

"Hey, you suffering from accent dementia."

"Just saying that what's the done thing in the US may not be in the UK."

"You reckon UK's poodle days when Blair was the Prime Minister are over?"

"Why is everything you say and think political!"

"Is that a question like our Prime Minister's lawyers are questioning the report filed by the Joint Investigation Team or is it an exclamation mark."

"You have just reconfirmed my statement, that everything is political with you, and no it was not a question mark but an exclamation mark."

"Like some of the observations of the special implementation bench of the apex court?"

"There you go again."

"OK, I will stop but seriously accent dementia is rather common amongst us Pakistanis."

"How do you define it?'

"Inability to pronounce as the natives do."

"I thought it was a matter of education. Our Prime Minister, his sons and daughter do not suffer from accent dementia. They speak Urdu and English fluently. Now bring on Abid Sher Ali and he can speak any language and it sounds Punjabi, then you have our Prime Minister's allies in his Panama hour..."

"Don't be facetious. Panama Hour indeed."

"Anyway, the two northern allies of our Prime Minister namely the Maulana and Achakzai suffer from an accent dementia with respect to English..."

"I have never heard either speak in English."

"Neither have I but..."

"See that's what our prime Minister's lawyers would define as bias, to be thrown out as bath water while keeping the baby..."

"And there you go yet again...anyway there are the Bhutto Zardaris who have no accent dementia with respect to English but Urdu is an issue."

"Because they lived outside Pakistan during their early years but what accounts for your obsession with accent dementia today?"

"It's all about education and ambition. Note that those suffering from accent dementia are not as well educated and/or traveled..."

"The educated/well traveled are regionally powerful while the less educated are flirting with the Centre."

"So the less the education the more the ambition?"

"Yes. But some have been able to travel extensively and overcome the limits of their education..."

"I give up."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2017


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