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  • Feb 21st, 2018
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"Our lisping perennially disheveled Prime Minister thundered in the national assembly on Monday against those institutions that strike down the right of parliament to legislate."

"I thought the judiciary provides a check to legislation that compromises the spirit of the constitution."

"You thought wrong, the letter and the spirit is that of parliament and if the numbers are there then they can legislate whatever they want."

"Even allowing murderers to be set free?"

"See that is precisely what is wrong with liberal media representatives like you, you use words such as murderers and dacoits and..."

"I never used the word dacoit."

"Hey, an inference can legitimately be drawn. But I ask you a more important question: if Shahbaz Sharif was the prime minister, would he have said what LPD said yesterday?"

"LPD? You mean LPG, liquefied petroleum gas...wait, shouldn't it be LNG, liquefied natural gas?"

"Don't be facetious; LPD refers to our Lisping Perennially Disheveled, prime minister."

"You are being facetious."

"No, seriously we have had dictators and those complicit in sending an elected government home, we have even had Junejo as the country's prime minister whose dress sense was kind of inappropriate though his moustache was rather dapper but our current prime minister can make a 2000 pound sterling suit look kind of shabby and..."

"Hmmm. Would Chaudhry Nisar have said what LNG, sorry LPD said in parliament?"

"Chaudhry Nisar knew what was coming and so left before LPD's speech."

"Who was the leak? Chaudhry Nisar could have had a previous engagement or wanted to go to the toilet or..."

"Stop my friend, you know that neither Shahbaz Sharif nor Chaudhry Nisar would have said what LPD said in parliament. And that is why the decision as to who will be the next prime minister has been made and it ain't Shahbaz Sharif though SS doesn't know it."

"You are trying to cause a rift in the Sharif family and you are..."

"I know traders, they ain't gonna give a 12 lakh rupee gold crown to Maryam Nawaz unless they know that she will remain a key decision maker."

"There I would agree with you."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2018


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