"So what's new?"
"Chaudhry Nisar observed that the Opposition would not miss any opportunity to score against the government."
"I reckon the word observed may be replaced with disdain or sarcasm."
"Hey, he is allowed that - the eighteenth amendment does not bar sarcasm in the House... I don't think any constitution anywhere in the world disallows the use of sarcasm against members of the opposition, and for your information there are instances where parliamentary members belonging to opposition benches have actually hit each other on the floor of the House, I recall seeing it happening in Japan. Then there is the British parliamentary tradition where a viewer is routinely subjected to sarcasm between the prime minister and the leader of the opposition."
"And need one add the leader of the opposition in the UK is the real leader, I mean it's not as if Aitzaz Ahsan is by any stretch of the imagination actually the real leader of the party in the upper house."
"Aitzaz Ahsan reminds me of the one pound fish song."
"Excuse me?"
"Didn't he take one rupee for fighting Gilani's case?"
"Well, if I was Gilani I wouldn't pay him more than one rupee, I mean the guy did lose the case."
"Ah yes. But anyway Chaudhry Nisar did destroy the atmosphere by not letting the doves in his party bring the opposition back into the house. And I am referring to Pervez Rashid..."
"Where is the supreme dove?"
"You mean Nawaz Sharif? He is not the supreme dove, on occasion he listens to the doves in his party and on occasion to the hawks - don't forget Nawaz Sharif's younger brother is also regarded as a hawk."
"No, I meant Dar, I mean he is less of a finance minister than the dove that can go to places where even other party doves do not."
"He has been in the UK since October 8..."
"So long? How is the economy being managed?"
"He communicates electronically which is under US surveillance so I guess we are in safe hands."
"Don't be facetious."
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