"Hanif Abbasi has challenged an institution under the control of the Junior Sharif and I hope some action will be taken against him..."
"The same gentleman who is referred to as Ephedrine Abbasi (EA) and all because he received a higher quota than what is allowed according to ours as well as international law?"
"International law?! Nothing but decadent Western laws designed to disallow our dedicated political workers from getting the fruits of their loyalty."
"Are you being facetious?"
"No, what right has international law to dictate how much ephedrine is to be given to individual manufacturing companies in Pakistan, Abbasi owns one such company..."
"Stop, you know why such a law is needed, to ensure that no pharmaceutical company engages in this narcotic trade. EA was indicted for selling excess quota that he illegally received to a neighbouring country in 2012, during the tenure of Gilani the pir, but I don't know what happened to that case after the PML-N took over power."
"Two things, first, EA was in august company, Musa Ali Gilani was also implicated in that scam and yes you are right the case hasn't moved forward and the fault is being laid at poor case preparation by ANF..."
"That's what happens in this country - either the investigating agency or the state prosecution messes up and that's why no politician with influence has been punished."
"Maybe, but if EA did it then he did it for national interest: to strengthen ties with the then sanctioned Iran and as you know the Afghan pharmaceutical sector is kind of in its infancy and if he sold some to Afghanistan he was helping industry there and besides the foreign exchange he earned benefited the country..."
"Oh stop being facetious. The glass my dear is fully empty."
"That's not how our politicians with influence do business in this country... the glass is full and the proof of that is in the fact Abbassi managed his ephedrine business so well that the Junior Sharif awarded him the lucrative Metrobus responsibility from Pindi to Islamabad."
"You have to narrow down who you are referring to as Junior Sharif. There are two who fall in that category these days, Humza and Maryam."
"No, I meant the original Junior Sharif - Shahbaz Sharif."
"If you want me to believe that EA actually challenged any institution under the Junior Sharif's control then I would simply not believe it."
"Yes he did, he reportedly went with his followers and freed someone in jail in Pindi and Pindi police stations are under the Junior Sharif."
"This, my friend, is how the Wild West was won."
"So no one will take notice you reckon!"
"I invoke my right to silence on some grounds..."
"Some grounds?"
"Hey, that's all I am saying."
"You are not a political loyalist so it's unlikely that the investigating agency or the prosecuting agency would assist you in the matter."
"Time will tell."
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