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"What's up in the land of the pure?"
"The Finance Minister is unwell I hear, and so the Prime Minister has delayed the announcement of reforms that he promised during Ahsan Iqbal's 1000 plus show by two days."
"Why?"
"I don't know I guess the Finance Minister wants to stand next to the Prime Minister when the announcement is made."
"Oh, I thought maybe there was still some work that needed to be completed before the reform package is finalised."
"Probably that too, but what ails our Finance Minister?"
"Don't be facetious, the guy is not well and..."
"Yes and I am asking you what his medical problem is."
"Oh I thought you were making a snide remark about the state of the economy. He had an angioplasty, had a stent put it..."
"Now if only he could put a stent in the heart of the economy."
"See I knew you were being facetious."
"There are thousands upon thousands who are now below the poverty line because of his policies and they too need a stent and..."
"The stent is the Benazir Income Support Programme, ooops, sorry the Income Support Programme anyway the Prime Minister has postponed the announcement of the reforms by two days so Dar's ill health couldn't be that serious."
"I guess, but does the Prime Minister know that Dar has emerged as the most unpopular man in what Nawaz Sharif considers his core constituency?"
"Which may explain the reforms reportedly for the business community the two have agreed on I would assume."
"Right one can see some improvement in law and order especially Karachi that has to be credited to Chaudhry Nisar, the electricity situation has improved and there is an entire set of nawalas who could claim credit for that, so it's the economy that remains in a tail spin dependent on foreign loans and..."
"Hush, that is all part of the policy of self sufficiency and out of the box thinking and..."
"How?"
"Dar is an honest man, gives huge sums to charity and so what if his policies are flawed, it's not as if his predecessors did any better."
"Granted, but he needs some economists around him."
"There are some economists around him but what he needs more is to begin listening to them."
"Ah yes that."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2013

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