"I have always marveled at Mian sahib's selections? I mean he takes time and energy and invests in that person and gets him ready..."
"And that's what the Daughter of the Country Maryam Nawaz has learnt from her dad. She has cultivated Captain Safdar and mind he was not a clean slate to work with and the slate had rough edges, very rough edges, and..."
"Don't be facetious. That's one experiment that has failed. But she learned from that and has selected good in-laws for her children. Besides, keep personal relations out of it! Love is something you cannot predict if you know what I mean. Now she and daddy got Ahsan Iqbal to take over from Chaudhry Nisar and..."
"That guy has done a great job, he has not revealed any financial details of any China Pakistan Economic Corridor or tax exemptions granted to any Chinese company and this in spite of the opposition clamouring for information for so long..."
"Ah indeed, but he didn't follow the same principle in the discharge of his duties as the Interior Minister. The guy reckons he can lure tourists to Pakistan! And in groups and since he can smell a bad one therefore he will know which set of tourists are not kosher."
"Don't be facetious, if you compare him with Khawaja Asif he is doing a better job. I mean Khawaja sahib with his tummy out and chest in and..."
"It's the other way round! Its chest out and tummy in."
"That's for the military, Khawaja sahib is a Punjabi politician..."
"Oh dear me. What about the Prime Minister himself?"
"He is following his Master's example! Jack of all trades, look at what he heads, and master of none, look what he has done till now."
"What about the Minister for Water and Power and..."
"All under the PM."
"What about Danyal Aziz?"
"Abandoning privatisation of one white elephant after another, like his predecessor!"
"The predecessor is now Governor Sindh."
"OK, while Talal Chaudhry remains at half mast, so put that in your pipe and smoke it."
"Talal Chaudhry got a mention by the Big Man during a jalsa."
"OK, he has a future but a full minister versus a man at half mast? Isn't that what a Minister of State is all about!"
"At half mast as you say he costs the taxpayer a pretty penny too."
"Indeed."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2018

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