Partly Facetious: Musharraf was great supporter of MQM

"So is it a matter of the cat is away and so the mice are allowed to play."
"I wasn't aware that the cat being away makes any difference in our politics. Altaf Hussain has been away for decades and that hasn't allowed the mice to play."
"I get it that in your book Altaf Hussain is the cat but who are the mice you are referring to?"
"Well, Musharraf was a great supporter of the MQM and I still remember him strutting on a stage in Islamabad on 12th May 2007..."
"Hey, that was 8 years ago."
"Right, but if a party can invoke 1992 then why can't I refer to 2008."
"You are not a political leader that's why. Besides referring to Musharraf as the mouse is hardly going to endear you to the army..."
"I stand corrected but let me draw an analogy from Disney characters - Musharraf was no Mickey Mouse in relations with Minnie but Mighty Mouse with supernatural powers and..."
"I see, but anyway the mouse to Altaf bhai's cat could be the Raabita Committee members many of whom have gone off to the US and abandoned him and..."
"You are being facetious, I mean surely you didn't expect them to decide to leave the party and then proceed to the UK where Altaf bhai is resident?"
"Ah I see, I never thought of it like that but anyway when I asked if it was the matter of the cat being away that allowed the mice to play I wasn't referring to the MQM."
"Were you referring to the Khan's family and friends who have reportedly not talked to him since he remarried? I agree the new faces around him are depleting his popularity not only with women, a large number of his women supporters have left him, but also within the party..."
"No, no Khan's history shows that he does stumble onto the truth of the matter - maybe it takes him a few years... anyway I was actually referring to the cat, Asif Ali Zardari being away, and the mice, his children, being allowed to play."
"Ah, but there has been no abdication my friend and until and unless there is one or a de-seating like what happened with respect to Nusrat Bhutto during the government of her daughter nothing is changing."
"There is that."