Partly Facetious Standard operating procedures!

ARTICLE: "I am proud of The Khan."

"I agree - I love some titles of newly established committees - the National Command and Operation Centre..."

"Shouldn't one of the Cs have been Corona to facilitate understanding amongst the illiterate, including labour that The Khan is focusing on and rightly so..."

"If you had said that about the frequent use of SOPs in public I would have agreed - I mean even the literate amongst us have problems understanding what in the world the government means when it talks about standard operating procedures..."

"Don't be facetious, besides the public is much more savvy than you seem to give it credit for."

"Yeah, but SOPs?"

"So how would you translate that in Urdu my friend?"

"How about corona se bechnay kay iqdamaat... (CBI)."

"OK, so let's say CBI is better than SOPs, but hey you spelt CBI rather than using the Urdu letters so..."

"Hmmm, I see what you mean - I am succumbing to the same elitist..."

"Admission is the first step towards reform I say, anyway there is now the National Coordination Committee on Housing..."

"Isn't housing a devolved subject?"

"I am not sure what is devolved and what isn't, all I know is that with zero implementation..."

"Six months more please."

"Don't be facetious."

"OK, anyway I am proud of Team Khan for coming up with a one window operation for the housing sector..."

"Dear Lord."

"What?"

"One-window operation has been a proposal since at least two to three decades. I think Nawaz Sharif was the one who talked about a one window operation to facilitate new industries and look at what is happening to industry today. Manufacturing has been experiencing negative growth for three to four years and..."

"The World Bank says ease of doing business has improved in Pakistan!"

"But with business down what does that mean?"

"But the World Bank says..."

"Right."

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