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Print Print 2018-12-13

Partly Facetious: The Gar?

"I don't think I will vote for The Khan next time around?"
Published December 13, 2018

"I don't think I will vote for The Khan next time around?"
"Why because his team is claiming success on specific subjects that were initiated during the previous administration - I mean take the exchange of information for tax purposes with OECD Pakistan signed in 2016 with effectivity from September this year, the foreign direct investments..."
"I reckon the OECD agreement was signed by Dar the Gar because it was so stipulated by the International Monetary Fund as we were on their programme at the time, but my anger at the Khan is due to his failure to resolve the issue of the teachers parked in D Chowk that is causing horrendous traffic jams in the morning and again in the evening for over a week or two now..."
"The Gar?"
"Seriously! That's what you want me to further clarify?"
"Well, yes."
"Gar as in Garfield... remember the cartoon cat known for laziness and..."
"Hey, Dar worked at all hours and..."
"But the net result was a current account deficit of legendary proportions, a growth rate that was less than half of all others in the region barring Afghanistan, and that too because Dar the Gar manipulated data..."
"OK, but if I recall correctly, Garfield loves food and Dar was not overweight, I mean..."
"Have you seen his eyes these days? I mean they seem to be getting smaller and smaller - I reckon he is one of those who gain weight on their face not on their stomach but anyway the reason why I say Dar the Gar is because Garfield could manipulate his human master easily and even you wont disagree with me when I say that Dar the Gar manipulated his human master Naw... sorry Odie quite easily."
"You think you are being smart but we are smart enough to realize what you left unsaid."
"I apologize all around, but talking of men not masters, remember Parveen Rashid?"
"I have said it so many times, get that dratted keyboard mended. It's Parvez Rashid..."
"OK, but what happened to him courtesy his Man Friday was a lot better than what is happening to his successor...."
"Man Friday?"
"Hey, if the Madina ki riyasat (Madina's system of government) is going to be imposed on Pakistan, which incidentally was not a campaign promise, then Man Friday, our holy day of the week, is the main man."
"I thought you meant Nawaz Sharif and not Prime Minister Imran Khan."
"I was referring to the former Prime Minister but I stand corrected. Anyway, do you understand how many former prime ministers are floating around in this country? I would imagine more than 8 or is it 9? Are we paying pension to all, and giving them security and..."
"The Khan will change all that but given that he doesn't have a majority in the Senate and given that the standing committees are still not established I reckon a presidential ordinance to the effect that all former prime ministers not be given a pension as an austerity measure especially as all of them are extremely wealthy including those resident abroad......"
"Don't be facetious."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2018

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