"So the rules of business were changed and now the Prime Minister would have to attend the Senate at least once a week." "I would like to highlight two prevalent elements: first, how many politicians or shall we say decision makers of political parties actually attend parliament and secondly...."
"If you are referring to Altaf bhai surely even you must know that he is not a member of parliament, and what is in Bhai Sahib's favour is that he commands and gets 100 percent loyalty...I refer you to Zardari sahib who people said had a PhD in politics but he was nervous about who he selected as the Prime Minister, I mean he was fully aware of the dangers of a Leghari surfacing if you know what I mean, so Zardari sahib was no more than a few furloughs away from his selected chief executive and..."
"You go into such inanities. I only meant to point out to you that party leaders if elected rarely show themselves in parliament. How many times has Imran Khan attended parliament?"
"In recent history, at least two prime ministers bothered to attend parliament..."
"Don't cite Gilani and Ashraf because they were not party leaders."
"But they set a good precedence."
"What are you going to do with a precedence set by second-tier leadership of a party! Let me mention my second point: if the Prime Minister does not abide by the rules of business of the Senate then what will happen? I mean can and would the senators request the Interior Ministry to apprehend the Prime Minister and force him to attend?"
"Not likely, I mean the Interior Ministry did not even compel Musharraf to attend the summons of the court - a man who, let's be honest, the Interior Minister has no love for."
"So you reckon implementation would be impossible?"
"Yep, but see this is what happens when you have selected members of parliament, and the senate is a group of selected members, who wish to be relevant... I mean relevance must surely be linked to implementability, right?"
"Right, but I think attending parliament is something the Prime Minister must consider, he is answerable to our representatives and we do have parliamentary democracy and not simply a democracy that ends as soon as the elections are over..."
"Do we indeed!"
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