"So many wounds and even though our former Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif says he wants to forget the wounds more are inflicted on him...not fair I say."
"That's vintage Mian sahib."
"What do you mean?'
"He says forget not forgive and let's be honest the only one he chose to forgive was Dar and look where that got him."
"Ha ha that's true but anyway he talked of wounds, what kind of wounds?"
"Well there appears to be a consensus spanning several cultures and languages that the pen wounds deeper than an arrow or sword or knife...or...."
"These proverbs are dated, all of them."
"I don't get you?"
"I would say Twitter/Facebook wounds deeper than....than..."
"I know you are a nawala (one food bite), owing deep loyalty to the most wounded of them all Nawaz Sharif, but don't go over the top with your updated proverbs....I mean don't say deeper than Holland & Holland "Royal" Deluxe Double Rifle that costs an estimated $228,000 or Imperiale Montecarlo Shotgun with a price tag of 106,800 dollars..."
"Wow are you sure of these prices?"
"It says so on the internet.'
"I hope you haven't motivated collectors in this country, I mean that kind of money could provide clean water to thousands of villages and..."
"You are so limited by your socio-income group - the rich don't think like that when they spend money; and some one as rich as Nawaz Sharif and his heirs would consider 228,000 dollars as petty cash."
"That's true but perhaps you need to remind Nawaz Sharif of a Bulgarian proverb."
"Remind him! I would have to tell him where Bulgaria is first."
"As a three time prime minister surely..."
"He has been as far as the US and as near as his estate in Lahore and Murree but never to Bulgaria to my knowledge."
"Anyway the Bulgarian proverb is that there is no hero without a wound."
"One wound or many wounds?"
"The proverb says a wound but I guess the more the wounds the more the status of a hero."
"And who defines a wound as a wound?"
"There is that but perhaps Sharif was thinking of a wounded lion, you know its dangerous to engage with a wounded lion and..."
"But what if the forest where the lion lives is burning? Or worse still the lion is no longer strong and his pride has left him and..."
"Mian sahib is a proud man I would have you know."
"A pride is a lion's family."
"Oh."
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