"Why do you look at everything in black and white?"
"I thought that was the way the cookie crumbled."
"Your cookie perhaps but I don't buy homemade cookies that crumble. I buy the packet cookies that rarely crumble."
"You are being facetious."
"Well, not really. See foreign policy may seem like a great success one day but events may change dramatically and the next day it could be termed as not a success. In the realm of bilateral foreign policy if a third country is involved then do not make the mistake of assuming that the third country will not launch its own attack or defense or whatever you may wish to call it."
"Modi was kind of brazen..."
"Yes, but I reckon even though the world agrees with us that there are massive human rights violations ongoing in occupied Kashmir yet no one is willing to take on Modi's government. Not Muslim countries and not the West - they want to engage with Modi on the economic front to keep the wheels of their own industries running."
"So you reckon there is no such thing as a moral foreign policy just national interest as perceived by the head of government?"
"Right and irrespective of what we may say when we are in opposition but when in power I don't know of any example where moral considerations outweigh economic considerations."
"What about Angela Merkel and the migrants?"
"OK, but she did suffer politically afterwards; and she has already announced that she will not stand in the next elections."
"I think we need a leader who would willingly step down..."
"Hey our parties are still focused on inheritance laws if you know what I mean..."
"Hmmm, the Sharifs progeny, the Bhutto Zardari progeny, don't forget the Maulana is also the son of a leader, then there is the Awami National Party, the Hotis, the..."
"The Khan says he isn't going to pass on the mantle of his party to his sons."
"So who gets his party? And who ever gets it would he or she not focus on inheritance laws?"
"Would the party survive without a Khan progeny at the helm?"
"Khans are a dime a dozen in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province."
"Don't be facetious."
