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"Confusion reins."
"I agree, with each Jiyala coming up with a different version."
"Gilani says the target was the PM House as well as houses of Parliament. He also said there are foreigners in FATA responsible."
"Rehman Malik says the target was Marriott and all fingers of blame lead to FATA, and no one thought he was referring to the foreigners there."
"And for good measure Rehman Malik said the government had information about a possible attack but said it was sketchy."
"Isn't it the duty of the government to convert sketchy information to accurate information?"
"He also said suicide attacks had gone down by 80 percent. Sitting in Islamabad I don't agree."
"Hey, don't forget Rehman Malik was also around when his party leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated!"
"He was not the Advisor on Interior then."
"True, but he was still responsible for her security, wasn't he?"
"Am not sure - they are all pointing the fingers of blame on the Musharraf regime."
"They?"
"The Jiyalas collectively."
"Ah yes, and they don't even want the responsibility of probing her death when they are in government. The UN is to do the needful."
"I am so angry, just before the blast..."
"Well, you shouldn't be. You remember what Bush did when he was informed about the 9/11 attack. He kept on reading a children's story to a bunch of kids in Florida and then hid somewhere for awhile."
"No, I am mad because just before the blast I was going home, only a mere ten minutes from Iftari, and the traffic police stopped traffic and only let dignitaries pass on the Constitution Avenue for fifteen minutes at least - see they were going to Fehmida's Iftar party - my question: why is that a function which is more important than my getting home and breaking my fast!"
"We have an elitist..."
"I thought we had a democratically elected government."
"We do but they are at present more concerned about President Zardari's broadcast, warts and all. No editing was done and I hear the President is real mad."
"But didn't the same thing happen to our wide eyed innocent parrot?"
"Yep it had happened to the PM as well, political appointees you know..."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2008

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