"You know if you are in the real estate business its location, location, location and if you are in politics its narrative, narrative, narrative."
"I would add a rider: it all depends on your target group. If you are catering to the middle income earners, you are not going to advertise Trump Towers and if as a politician your support base are the traders and wholesalers and generally businesspeople who in this country know a few things, including how to avoid as well as evade taxes, how to send money abroad without letting the government know, how to bring it back into the country as remittance which, God be praised, is not taxed and..."
"Hey, back off, will you. The accountability court, the correct forum, is currently hearing cases against the newly-elected President of the PML-N and the man accused of money laundering for him..."
"Get your facts straight. Affidavit Ishaq Dar (AID) is not facing charges for money laundering but for a 91-time increase in his wealth in five to six years and to me that shows that he may have charged for services rendered and..."
"Stop right there. I am saddened by such comments, I mean instead of asking how AID got to be so rich so quickly and why he did not apply the same system on the country's finances......"
"Don't be facetious; anyway, the narrative for the PML-N support base cannot be why was I disqualified and I was not convicted for corruption but for holding an iqama (work permit for the Emirates) and...wait let me finish, taking exception to Hussain Nawaz, a multi-millionaire, sitting forlornly in an air conditioned room, waiting for those who the rather pudgy gentleman would normally wipe his 3000 dollar boots on..."
"That's a tad harsh isn't it!"
"But that is not the narrative that would convince the business community, Nawaz Sharif's support base."
"Hey, a large number of poor and lower income people had to have voted for him to give his party a majority in parliament given poverty levels in this country..."
"You reckon the poor were riled to see Hussain Nawaz sitting in that chair or for the Visionary Ahsan Iqbal yelling at the Rangers in English for daring to disallow him to enter the court where his party President was or for Nawaz Sharif to have an iqama which the poor would give their right hand to get......"
"Salvador Dali says the thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. And given the poor who are trying to go abroad in search of better jobs Mian sahib's thermometer of success, holder of the coveted iqama, must be real hot."
"Don't be facetious."
"That was in English, so now the poor would not have understood Iqbal's comments but.
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