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"So now what?"
"I am not quite sure. I mean only one-fourth of the members of the National Assembly have resigned and it doesn't seem enough..."
"It isn't enough but it was the principle of the thing."
"What principle! They resigned because they thought it would be for the short term only - I mean considering general elections are around the corner and..."
"You are a skeptic at heart, aren't you?"
"Can't help it - I live in Pakistan and am used to our politicians, those who start young and those who start late."
"Ah, I see, you mean civilian and non-civilian."
"Indeed."
"I suppose they all have one objective: to stay in power till death do us part. So, on the other side you have a President who wants to remain a President at all costs and is electing himself from the existing assemblies which will go for a reelection in a few months time at most."
"And you have a leader who wants all cases dropped against her and to be allowed to become the PM again."
"And you have the Chosen One even endorsing a decision that may make him even more redundant than he is now..."
"Selfless as far as taking instructions to the letter and the spirit and the..."
"You think he will survive?"
"He is the only one with the exit strategy."
"BB comes and he goes!"
"Yes."
"It's not his exit strategy."
"His is but to do and die."
"Indeed he had a good running for awhile."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2007

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