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Print Print 2015-04-02

Partly Facetious: The MQM-PTI tussle

"What happened at Jinnah bagh on Tuesday..."
Published April 2, 2015

"What happened at Jinnah bagh on Tuesday..."
"Before you say anything let me ask you whether there was any shooting?"
"Shooting what? There was definitely shooting at the mouth..."
"In which case it was a political thing, you know that in our country hurling abuse against each other and..."
"The two parties registered FIRs against each other for engaging in assault and..."
"That too is politics in Pakistan."
"I would have thought an FIR would imply some illegal physical actions requiring an investigation that would determine one side right and the other wrong..."
"Inquiry results are hardly ever endorsed by the losing side, and that too is our politics."
"So what do you suggest? A judicial commission?"
"Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the prime minister himself write a letter to the Supreme Court on August 2014 requesting a judicial commission be set up to probe the Imran's allegations of rigging in the 2013 elections and the justices are yet to respond to that letter?"
"Oh, I forgot that. So what makes the Khan think that this time around the justices would respond?"
"This time Imran Khan is back at square one, he has to first convince the PML (N) on the terms of reference (TORs) - I mean they are agreed one day and the next they are unagreed if you will."
"But Dar says not a comma, not a full stop has been changed in the proposed ordinance."
"But he admitted that the attached MoUs on the scope of the ordinance have been changed. Technically he was right though not perhaps ethically and morally and his checkmate: the release of Imran/Alvi tape lauding the attack on the highly partisan Pakistan television."
"Imran says it is illegal."
"Only if the Prime Minister did not approve the recording!"
"Ah yes...anyway Zardari sahib refers to Khan's politics as immature with good reason then - he doesn't strike when the iron is hot."
"Yep, Imran thinks the iron can get hotter not realising that load shedding has cooled it down again."
"Don't be facetious but Zardari sahib has done another Zardari. Trying to take credit for removing the barriers around Bilawal house when the entire country knows that he had no choice..."
"Talking of Bilawal House, I hear the name maybe changed to Bakhtawar House."
"Don't be facetious let the head of the family deal with it."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2015

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