Partly Facetious: The whole world is out to get our President

26 Jan, 2010

"I am so glad that the accused in the murder, need I add brutal murder, of the 12-year-old Shazia has been jailed."
"Don't we have child labour laws? Given that the employer was a lawyer..."
"Poverty can make many a parent force their child to work."
"But the employer should have known better given that he is a lawyer."
"All lawyers are neither following the law nor all are aware of the law which relies on truth and justice if you know what I mean."
"What world do you live in! Truth and justice indeed! Where do you live? In utopia!"
And I know you are taking a dig at that poor Babar Awan aren't you! All Awan said was that there is no Swiss case. And he is right there. The Swiss case was withdrawn after the NRO and as per instructions of the then Attorney General Malik Qayyum."
"Maybe the President needs to hire a more competent lawyer."
"You are so bad! The poor guy is sick and..."
"How could he be sick! He is in Turkey!"
"The President is in Turkey, Awan has some heart problem and is in hospital."
"Is it the stress of the job you reckon!"
"Maybe with commentators like you but anyway the Prime Minister went to see him in hospital."
"Why?"
"Why not! He visited the hospital to show his solidarity in spite of some verbal blunders by Dr sahib recently."
"He is not Dr Sahib."
"Hey, he has a PhD and that entitles him to be referred to as Dr."
"I want to see the degree. Our politicians should be required to show their degrees to the chief election commissioner prior to being declared eligible to contest."
"Oh don't you start that again. By the way did you hear the French investigator has requested information from the Swiss and the British that may implicate President Zardari in a mafia style murder of 11 French engineers?"
"This is political victimisation."
"In foreign courts?"
"The whole world is out to get our President...everyone is jealous of a leader like Zardari and they are all out to get him."
"It's a bit hard to swallow."
"Do you deny that he is democratically elected..."
"I have heard all that but I am merely challenging your perception that the entire world is out to get him. I mean I may grant you that the Pakistani establishment and the media and the..."
"Oh, they have such long hands.... a literal translation of the Urdu expression..."
"Agreed that our establishment is fighting the war on terror but I don't think their hands are that long..."
"They are as long as that of our rulers, hands that can extend to all corners of the world."
"Like personal wealth?"
"Don't be facetious."

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