"I have told you time and again that Ahsan Iqbal, the Interior Minister Plus, is a visionary - he thinks in years and decades not days and weeks or even months."
"Plus, what? Like GSP Plus?"
"Even more than GSP Plus, which is for a limited time with many conditions attached while Interior Minister Plus means the new Dar with a plethora of responsibilities though without all that power..."
"Oh dear! Going back to this dharna, I hope it doesn't go into months, why in the world don't they get Kaira of the Zardi group (read trained and molded by none other than the scion of the Bhutto clan former President Asif Ali Zardari) to undertake the negotiations? Remember the PPP government signed on the dotted line with Maulvi Tahirul Qadri but did not do anything that they agreed to and..."
"Because it's not hadith, the sayings of the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him), right!"
"Right, so my suggestion is fire Zahid Hamid, he should be dispensable anyway, he is not a diehard Nawala (Nawaz Sharif supporter)."
"You know I don't understand this love of Zahid Hamid! I mean most of the bills he has drafted or shall I say crafted have not withstood the legal test..."
"Name one."
"The most famous one was the National Reconciliation Ordinance that was struck down by the courts, and I reckon the legislation allowing a disqualified man to become the president of a party will also be struck down."
"Competence is not a measure of who stays and who goes in the Nawaz Sharif ideology; besides if absentee Dar is still a minister, absentee since July as far as his mind is concerned, and physically absent since he was escorted out of the country at public expense..."
"Hee, hee, hee. Nawaz Sharif ideology! I reckon that comes from the former First Daughter who wants to inherit the party from daddy and do a Benazir Bhutto on Uncle Shahbaz! I mean Bhuttoism is definitely an ideology but Nawaz Sharif is more a state of...state of...the body - you know love of all tangible things...."
"I disagree! Nawaz Sharif is a true shahanshah."
"How can you say that?"
"He refers to himself in the third person."
"Don't be facetious."
"Nawaz Sharif says he is not afraid of jail or death."
"He should be because he may not get a deal this time around and if he is not afraid of death then why the 50 plus escort wherever he goes?"
"There you go with the Plus again."
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