PARTLY FACETIOUS: no fun in being Prime Minister these days

"Maybe this time it will work."
"What?"
"Setting targets for reducing WAPDA's line losses."
"Why? What is different this time around?"
"We have the Chosen One and..."
"The Chosen One and who?"
"The Chosen One and President Pervez Musharraf."
"You have had President Pervez Musharraf in power for a little over five years now."
"Yes but not as President."
"Are you crazy! The guy has been in power all this time and you say not as President as a pertinent fact."
"Well, it is pertinent. See before 9/11 he may have been the self-appointed Chief Executive but he certainly was not in any way accepted by the world and..."
"Kinda like the generals in Burma, or Myanmar if you would rather call it that."
"Kinda like that. Yes. But national security you know dictated we keep him even if we were isolated as a nation."
"Right. President Musharraf at the time was getting invited to countries like Vietnam - pretty countries but with zero international clout and with little or no prospect of trade between our two countries. But not to the US and France and you know the nice countries where I hear shopping is good."
"True. But then our Chosen One is now doing the rounds that President Musharraf was doing in his early days, or prior to 9/11."
"Yes, I heard of his Bhutan trip. Interesting that! And India and..."
"As long as he was Finance Minister he got to travel with Musharraf but..."
"But now that he also holds dual charge..."
"He has to find countries to visit that the President is not interested in visiting."
"Right."
"Tough life being a PM in Pakistan these days I tell you - tourism is so much better as the Finance Minister."