Partly Facetious: The challenge of extended family
"Yet another successful jalsa by the PTI."
"Indeed it is reminiscent of Mian sahib's claims - that all his foreign tours have been very successful and this in spite of the fact that foreign direct investment, which he specifically itemizes as a priority objective for these trips, is continuously declining; higher exports is also a prioritised objective and that too have been declining continuously and then in foreign relations we remain on the back foot with India and Afghanistan and..."
"These are all issues that have surfaced due to his extended family, ie, family by marriage."
"Trump is giving his son-in-law a special advisorship so there!"
"Oh, Mian sahib gives the minimum favour possible to Captain Safdar..."
"One question: shouldn't Captain Safdar by now be Brigadier or a General? I mean given his age..."
"I think he resigned or something, I mean it wasn't a natural retirement..."
"But his father in law has ruled the roost three times and..."
"Promotions don't happen in the army the same way, anyway am not sure but does captain Safdar live in the Prime Minister's House? I heard of Maryam living there but not the Captain..."
"I don't know but in any case I hope he drops the Captain from his name... all the well known captains are infamous, there is captain Hook , then there is captain Kidd, a well known pirate, Captain Morgan a Welsh buccaneer, Captain Blackbeard..."
"How about Captain Drake, the hero, Captain Raleigh, another hero..."
"But you know we are referring to captains at sea, the officer in-charge of the ship, now in the army the position is not that high up..."
"But isn't that the case with the Good Captain Safdar in the Sharif household... I mean he didn't even know his wife's foreign assets..."
"Oooh, dangerous talk... stop."
"I have a right to..."
"Maryam's three stooges would let loose their venom on you..."
"I stand corrected."
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