"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."
"That's not even grammatically correct...oh wait...is that something said by someone famous?'
"Yes indeed. The quote is attributed to Shakespeare."
"Why are you quoting it?"
"Well, the temperatures in Karachi came to a boiling point after some angry remarks by Dr Zulfikar Mirza."
"Well, the good Doctor can also quote from Shakespeare."
"What do you mean?"
"The Doctor would probably quote 'to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man'."
"Right, but my question is what did he gain by the statement?"
"Satisfaction?"
"At what cost?"
"Well, my friend three died in the aftermath of his remarks and I believe over 30 were injured and the counting has not stopped."
"I guess...but for the life of me I don't know why politicians say and do what they say and do. Why don't they consider the result of their words and actions?"
"I know why: they say to convince the people that the other side is batty and they do to feather the nest."
"Batty?"
"Well, batty can be defined as corrupt, bhatta khor and extortionist and..."
"You are being unfair to politicians - they are not the only ones feathering their nest. It's a compulsion of the Pakistani variety of the species, the homo sapiens..."
"You sound delirious. Did you get to sleep well last night?"
"Well, Dr Mirza made sure that my sleep was interrupted throughout the night as Karachi burnt, again."
"I guess, but I would like to quote Shakespeare too to all our politicians and all those who exercise power in this country: 'Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'."
"Ah yes, too logical for our the Pakistani variety of homo sapiens."