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"Naya (new) Pakistan is here I say."

"If you are referring to the state of the economy and the economic policies and..."

"Nope, that's same-o, same-o..."

"The economy is in dire straits my friend, the solutions by the architects of Naya Pakistan are the same as in previous administrations - raise taxes on petroleum and products, raise regulatory duties on what you consider luxury items, with current expenditure growing and development slashed to meet the deficit n spite of the sale of the water buffaloes and..."

"Boring, I have heard it all before."

"Oh, so if by Naya Pakistan you mean accountability is finally going to be..."

"The Chief Justice has given a shut-up call to the architects of Naya Pakistan much to the glee of the maintenance men of the Old Pakistan..."

"Maintenance men?"

"Well, the status quo parties are not architects right, they are more into maintenance."

"You are so bad anyway I guess you are not referring to accountability a la Khan style as an example of Naya Pakistan.'

"No, you give up?"

"How about reliance on borrowing from countries friendly to us - the Saudis, the UAE, Qatar, the..."

"That too was the practice in previous administrations...."

"OK, I give up! What happened that you reckon the sun or the moon of a Naya Pakistan has finally dawned."

"Sun and moon, good one, anyway for your information the Asia Society's poll, which was founded by Rockefeller III revealed..."

"What? Our credit rating has been further downgraded."

"Think positive silly, the poll showed Imran Khan received more than 11,000 votes, 88 percent of the total, to be on the list of the World's Most Admired People of 2018. In the Yougov poll he made it to the top 20 most admired men..."

"Did 11,000 Khanzadehs hack..."

"Those surveyed are not volunteers, but selected by the poll takers."

"Anyway, woe is me! Time waits for no man and..."

"What are you talking about?"

"The Khan didn't make it to the list of the top 100 heartthrobs, now had it been forty years ago... but two Pakistanis did - Fawad Khan and Imran Abbas ..."

"Yeah, but can you imagine Nawaz Sharif or Zardari sahib or even one of the Bhutto Zardaris or the Zardari Bhuttos on any of these lists?"

"The Maulana polled one vote and..."

"Don't be facetious."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019


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Anjum Ibrahim has a BA in Economics from Vassar College and an MSC from the London School of Economics. She has worked in a multilateral institution and has been associated with Business Recorder for a long time and currently holds the post of Resident Editor in Islamabad. She also hosts a show on Aaj TV "Paisa bolta hai" (money talks).


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