Partly Facetious: The latest eagle beagle of Zardari-led government

"Kaira gave a rather fiery speech the other day."
"He is our latest Minister for Misinformation."
"That is what his ministry was referred to in the old days but I don't really think he is passing on misinformation or at least that is not what I would accuse him of."
"Whatever do you mean?"
"He quite legitimately stated that the PPP is not the only party whose past corruption should be brought to the notice of the court..."
"Hey before you go further, let me state here that the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was the outcome of a deal between Benazir Bhutto and Musharraf, the other major political party PML (N) was not complicit and the proof of that pudding is in the time bar placed on the NRO effectivity..."
"OK, but according to PPP high command the Sharifs also made a deal with Musharraf - the deal to leave the country and not be hanged like Bhutto."
"Agreed, but my point is if you don't defend the NRO and if you don't defend its three month applicability, which the government's legal beagles advised, then the verdict was surely expected. But going back to Kaira he rightly wants accountability of all - the judiciary, the generals and Nawaz Sharif and PML (N) party stalwarts. But did he forget that the onus of cases against these people rests with the government?"
"The expression is not legal beagles, its legal eagles."
"Hey you can't really refer to the legal team of the government as eagles can you?"
"Don't be facetious. But yes Kaira did forget that the onus of preparing cases rests with the government and he was asked this question and he did accept that it is the government that must prepare the cases against generals as well as the judiciary."
"You know poor governance is simply..."
"Hey did you hear the latest eagle beagle of the government?"
"Sorry?"
"He said on television that as Punjab rules over 66 percent of the people of this country and therefore any allegation of poor governance rests with the Punjab government?"
"Could someone tell him that the failure to end loadshedding is not the domain of a provincial government, the inequitable and anomalous tax structure is the domain of the federal government, the..."
"It's the case of Humpty Dumpty as our President would say."
"What?"
"Humpty Dumpty as in the new Law Minister is having a difficult time putting himself up on the wall in spite of all the king's horses and all the king's men trying to give him a push to enable him to sit on the wall."
"Hey but what if you don't like sitting on walls?"
"Now who is being facetious."