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Print Print 2018-03-08

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Difference between Nawaz, Zardari

"There is one major difference between Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari."
Published March 8, 2018

"There is one major difference between Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari."
"It's not having more assets abroad than back home!"
"Not against the law my friend, a law, need I add, passed not by the late Benazir Bhutto but by the very present Nawaz Sharif."
"True, but could the difference be the way the two men are talking about the judiciary?"
"Technically not at present, right now there are no pending cases against the former President while there are many serious ongoing hearings against the former Prime Minister."
"Oh I get it! The difference is one is a former president and the other is a former prime minister."
"Well, that shows that Zardari sahib is kind of more astute right! I mean as president you are not liable to any case being filed against you while this immunity does not extend to a prime minister."
"Hmmm, but I think the reason Zardari sahib did not stand for elections before was because he did not have the graduation degree which was a requirement for contesting elections at that time and by 2013 Zardari sahib was sufficiently content with his chosen prime ministers doing precisely what he asked them to."
"Besides his term of office as president had not expired when elections were held in 2013."
"True, so is that the difference you were referring to?"
"No, do you want to take another guess?"
"They are both one wife in a life time men, unlike the Khan?"
"Nope, not at all.
"OK, one last try - Zardari sahib is infinitely better at placing a finger delicately on the weakness pulse of the one he is negotiating with and Nawaz Sharif is somehow good at putting his entire hand including his palm on the extremely painful vein of the one daring to challenge him rather than negotiating..."
"Nah, the difference is that Zardari sahib, in spite of the reported snide remarks against the intellectuals/ideologues that he inherited from his wife, and I mean Rabbani and Aitezaz Ahsan and Farhatullah Babar, does not try to get rid of them but uses them; while I can't think of any Nawala intellectual/ideologue who is still in the party?"
"Chaudhry Nisar is out of favour, but then what about... what about... what..."
"I give you till tomorrow to come up with a name."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2018

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