Partly Facetious: Does Shahbaz trust Zardari?

ARTICLE: "Politics is never saying sorry."

"I thought love was about never having to say you're sorry."

""That's in the West, in Pakistan its politics."

"How come?"

"Well, the Zardari-led government wanted to de-seat Shahbaz Sharif's government in the Punjab, he failed, but he never said sorry."

"Which is why Shahbaz Sharif doesn't trust Zardari sahib to this day - refers to him as Ali Baba and his forty thieves!"

"He says that only when Big Brother is in power."

"Right, see that's what I meant when I said politics is never saying you're sorry for what you did or did not do but this applies only when you the politician is affiliated with the ruling party; and when your party is out of power you go around saying sorry, sorry, sorry..."

"Agreed, though Nawaz Sharif and his party are still defending the flawed policies of The Accountant and refusing to accept the blame for how they left this country's economy and..."

"But better than what The Khan administration has achieved in less than two years!"

"It's no joking matter..."

"Sorry..."

"You are no politician."

"Never claimed to be one; anyway there is Ghulam Sarwar of the Aviation Ministry who insists what he did was right, PIA suspended from operating in Europe and the hundreds of Pakistani pilots in other airlines have reportedly been grounded..."

"Look at the bright side."

"Excuse me?"

"Hafeez Sheikh can stop transferring officials of his Ministry and its attached entities and blame Sarwar for the decline in remittance inflows..."

"That's really a positive because that may allow this Chairman FBR to stay in his post till his retirement, I mean he is the fifth FBR chief since The Khan took over and the third since Hafeez Sheikh came home to roost..."

"The roosting won't be for long I reckon, he has a flat in Dubai and..."

"A rooster I will have you know changes partners and...and..."

"Don't be facetious anyway Musharraf did damage as well, his war on terror..."

"Right, right, but I agree politics is never saying sorry and I think a more appropriate response of our politicians should be remorse and..."

"Remorse comes only after you are sorry not when as per Mencken, an American journalist, under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right."

"Not applicable to Pakistan - we have three parties!"

"Shallow, shallow!"

"Sticks and stones may hurt me but words..."

"Words hurt the most - ask any politician which is why they never say sorry!"

"I give up."

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