PARTLY FACETIOUS: Babar Awan still a Senator
"So it's out Chandio and in Farooq Naek."
"Chandio was always disposable - the only question was when he would be disposed of if you know what I mean."
"Indeed - Montecito eat your heart out!"
"You shouldn't take pleasure at someone's misfortune especially someone who acknowledges his status as an errant child!"
"Hey, that was a legitimate response to the contempt of court charge and let me add Babar Awan is still a senator."
"And senators cannot be defined as errant children?"
"I guess... but technically senators too can be shunted out!"
"Ah indeed, and given that Dr B Awan has been stripped of all his former honours barring perhaps being a senatorship..."
"Ironic isn't it. And I am referring to the fact that being a senator is the last remaining honour conferred by the party leadership! Shouldn't that have been the first is what I am saying! I mean a senator as per the constitution is elected according to proportional representation and..."
"All in good time."
"So you reckon the party leader will now take back his senatorship."
"No doubt in my mind."
"How?"
"Easy, remember constitutional article 62 (d), (e) and (f)? The qualifications to be a member of the parliament require an individual to be of good character, sagacious, righteous, non-profligate and..."
"It would be difficult to prove..." "Ah, but if all PPP MNAs come out and level charges against Dr Awan, very doable don't you think, then what?" "Then the errant child clause would not be applicable." "Don't be facetious."
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