Partly Facetious: Sharifs have drawn important lesson from ZAB

"What next? Two First Information Reports (FIRs) against the Prime Minister, Chief Minister Punjab and the Interior Minister."
"Hmmm, it has fuelled a lot of comparisons with Z A Bhutto though the difference was that Bhutto himself allowed the FIR to be registered against him while the Sharif brothers fought tooth and nail not to have one registered against them."
"Bhutto sahib was basking in his overall majority while the Sharifs drew an important lesson from Bhutto sahib."
"Indeed, so the Sharif brothers did learn some lessons after all... and for all you people who insist that the only lesson Mian sahib has learned is to repeat the mistake to prove that the first time around there was no mistake are wrong."
"Well, you gotta qualify it right?"
"Right, but FIRs are also being registered against Imran Khan and..."
"It's not the same if they are registered by the sitting government. Anyway the point is that unless the army takes sides the two protagonists have to resolve it between themselves."
"The army has said that it is not going to take sides."
"You know the army is between a rock and a hard place. It's damned if it listens to the government instructions as it is bound to under the constitution and it's damned if it doesn't if you know what I mean."
"So what are you saying? The army should take sides?"
"Well, the army has to listen to what the government tells it to do and for the life of me I can't understand why the government has not issued instructions to the army to have Constitution Avenue and the parade ground vacated. I mean considering that Qadri's and Khan's dharnas are represented by those who listen to the army...and I am referring to the way the army got these people to vacate PTV..."
"I am so tired of our national institutions by the way. They are so bloody partisan!"
"But they are still national institutions."
"Did you hear what happened in another national institution? PIA? That was delaying departure of a plane waiting for Rehman Malik and..."
"Yes and the other passengers got angry and didn't let the two gentlemen on board. And the flood victims got angry at PML-N and the Prime Minister had to return to the capital with his proverbial tail between his legs for not meeting the expectations of the victims."
"What's proverbial about his tail?"
"Too many have attached themselves to it and it's hampering his movement."
"Don't be facetious."