"So now what? The Maulanas don't like the President and the President doesn't like the Maulanas and they have come out in the open. And the Musharraf Lotas, the ever growing number of Musharraf Lotas need I add, are saying that the President is above reproach."
"And this maybe Musharraf's way of setting the groundwork for not resigning as army chief by the end of the year."
"But that commitment was made to the people of this country and not to the Maulanas. It's now part of the constitution and not a private deal between the President and the Maulanas - you know like the one between Musharraf and the Mian Sahibs."
"Musharraf doesn't believe in any deals but the private kind it seems. In any case that is a mere technicality. I mean Musharraf has changed the constitution at will."
"But now there is a National Assembly and he needs two-thirds majority to get anything changed."
"Another technicality that."
"Sometimes I wonder what Musharraf's son is saying about all this. Remember when he came to power his son is allegedly credited with saying that he should have an exit strategy, unlike Zia, and be remembered as a good man."
"All that is forgotten by the Musharraf family. Meanwhile the country continues to enjoy the fruits of the fight between the President and the Maulanas."
"Are you crazy! We are suffering from these insults that the two sides hurl against each other on a daily basis almost."
"I read somewhere that Qazi Hussain Ahmed was denied a visa by a European country, and if that is indeed so then it is rather serious. I mean how can a parliamentarian be refused a visa and the rest of the country looks on..."
"If I remember correctly prior to September 11 President Musharraf couldn't get a visa to go to even Timbuktu."
"Where is Timbuktu?"
"Oh, for Pete's sake don't get side tracked...you know what I mean don't you?"
"Yes I guess."
"Besides, I don't think you should take it personally. I mean if the guy was refused a visa then he was refused one. What difference does it make to us! Our people, or shall we say the people of his constituency, would eventually decide whether they want to re-elect him or not and not the country that refused him a visa."
"Yeah, that is democracy."
"Speaking of democracy, we beat America."
"Not in democracy. And we haven't beaten America in anything. What in the world are you talking about?"
"We were one of the first countries, courtesy BB or was it Mian Sahib or indeed was it our previous military godfather Zia who started the anti-terrorist courts. I mean we dealt a sound blow to human rights well before George Bush came to power."
"Didn't the Americans call our courts kangaroo courts at the time."
"The courts are of the eagle variety if set up by the US but somehow the animal for a poor country is always a kangaroo."
"So about Australia..."
"Kangaroo foreign policy if you ask me. You have poodle foreign policy and then you have kangaroo foreign policy..."