"Don't be facetious."
"No I mean it."
"No one in our politics has a clean slate and you are indulging in political victimisation..."
"Hey I am not referring to his being the first President forced to invoke the constitutional immunity to stay the procedures in eight cases filed against him at a time when he was not the president."
"Are you referring to the fact that he is the first head of a major party who has opted to become the president instead of prime minister? If that is your contention then let me tell you that he did not do so because he felt a president has immunity from prosecution unlike the prime minister. If you recall, the President supported Musharraf's edicts with respect to the judiciary and never considered the success of a long march and..."
"Nope I was not referring to that as indicative of his trail blazing."
"Were you referring to the fact that at present he is the only head of a party that has not supported any development project from his own funds in this country? Nawaz Sharif has a hospital and schools while Imran Khan has established the Shaukat Khanum Hospital but Zardari's support for projects is with public money and not his own."
"Well that is a point, I never thought of that but no that is not what I was referring to either."
"Then what were you referring to?"
"Our President is a trail blazer because he has set new parameters for addressing a jalsa."
"What ever do you mean?"
"Jalsas are now held in either the Sindh Chief Minister's official house or the Punjab Governor's official residence but not out in grounds and all."
"That is the lesson he learned: his wife was assassinated while addressing a jalsa in Pindi..."
"And needless to say that means carefully selected Zardis constitute the audience."