Partly Facetious: learning how to take nascent democracy to maturity

"So what's the latest?"
"Hot off the press?"
"Yes. I suppose you will talk of Musharraf's impending impeachment or his defence of his eight years of misrule."
"Nope, because I don't think that's hot off the press."
"Why do you say that?"
"It took 8 years in the making, my friend, and if the nation allowed this to happen then we are all at fault and have been for the past 8 years."
"True, but the impeachment is hot off the press especially coming in the wake of the book where Musharraf kinda threatened Benazir Bhutto by referring to his powers being greater than hers and how she should buckle down to his demands rather than the other way around."
"Right but we knew something like that had been agreed and for BB the NRO was sufficient - whether you define the NRO as a BB specific economic tool or as AZ maintains a political tool by focusing on the word reconciliation in the ordinance, though, to be honest, it only deals with ending cases of corruption..."
"Let's move on, so if it wasn't impeachment then what is hot off the press?"
"Not the charge sheet being prepared by the coalition partners!"
"Then what? Ah, I know the fact that Gilani packed his bags so quickly after Musharraf refused to go to China."
"I hear that Gilani and his family keep their bags packed in any eventuality."
"Overnight bags, not suitcases!"
"I hear you."
"So what was it that was hot off the Press?"
"Edwards affair while his wife was battling cancer."
"Edwards should come and do politicking in Pakistan. That won't matter to us."
"I agree - I mean most of our worthy politicians and sometimes even their spouses have been known to play the field so to speak."
"Right and while he may learn more about infidelity here we may learn about how to take this country from nascent democracy to a mature one."
"Indeed."