Partly Facetious: PM is not doing too badly

"There is nothing that can bring out inefficiencies and lack of preparedness as a natural disaster."
"Including a pandemic!"
"Without doubt."
"And for your information, no country, barring none, not even China, was prepared to deal with the situation. There were lessons learned and those countries that learned lessons from others who grappled with the virus earlier, did not minimize the threat of the virus and proceeded to test, test and test as many of the members of its public as possible given the number of tests kits available did better than others."
"Indeed and before you make any judgments on The Khan and his cabinet let me state for the record that he is not doing too badly - he has announced a package of Rs 1.2 trillion which is significant and..."
"Could someone get Dr Hafeez Sheikh to begin to calculate the expenditure and revenue for formulating next year's budget. And to please be realistic this time around."
"During a recent press conference, he tasked the Secretary Finance to do that and the guy is his man so I reckon......"
"I love Sheikh. He is the quintessential bureaucrat - pass the buck for all flawed policies if you can, and if you can't blame it on previous administration's flawed policies and if that doesn't gel..."
"Hmmm, the budget strategy paper that he presented to the cabinet last month was outdated, I mean it didn't take account of the impact of the Coronavirus, the paper refers to top risks to the budget strategy being lack of adherence to budgetary targets, revenue collection targets, and circular debt of the energy sector..."
"There must be some knives out against him! My question why didn't these knives highlight the dated, extremely dated, strategy paper?"
"The sharpest knife of all Fawad Chaudhry wants his ministry to take over the medical aspect of the virus and Sheikh Rashid is essentially a yes man to anyone willing to give him a ministry..."
"I don't know about the knives against Sheikh in the cabinet but your knife appears to be out today against Sheikh Rashid."
"I know one thing, Rashid has stockpiled."
"Look we all want to protect ourselves and our families from the Virus and..."
"I meant cigars, and I heard that smoking cigars is the best defense against the virus because the cigar burns its potency..."
"Oh dear Lord! Why don't you tell Fawad Chaudhry to undertake empirical studies..."
"Now who is being facetious!"