ARTICLE: "I have never understood the root of the expression doodh ka doodh, paani ka paani which literally translated means separating the milk from water..."

"You don't make literal translation of proverbs. The meaning is separating truth from falsehood.....and this is what the Accountability judge was saying to former President Asif Ali Zardari as he indicted him in the Parklane case...."

"Right but my question is in a country where pure milk is a rarity....."

"What about the milk sold in containers, hygienically...."

"I am not sure how many actually buy that milk. People in our country talk of a desi chicken being tastier than a broiler chicken, bred in a controlled environment...."

"Ha ha and this was in spite of the bird flu in previous years."

"Indeed; let me recount a true story from my childhood. My mom, preferring milk straight from the cow, saw the milkman adding water from the garden hose and said sarcastically couldn't you at least have added water outside my home and the response was classic - he said but then the water may not have been pure."

"I see so doodh ka doodh and paani ka paani is not a relevant proverb as far as you are concerned but do you think you could be done for contempt of court because after all a judge said it to Zardari sahib."

"Hey my intent was not contempt; now if I had taken the mickey out of the prompting by Chauhan to The Buzz on a question regarding his summons by National Accountability Bureau then that could be contempt but without an attached punishment...."

"You are obviously not a high level bureaucrat..."

"I don't see what that has to do with anything."

"The Buzz has dismissed four to five Inspector Generals of Police and four to five principal secretaries and...oh yes Uzma Kardar was kicked out of the party for conduct unbecoming a PTI member."

"What did she do? I mean there is footage of a PTI member running with the ballot box and he is a sitting minister, then there is footage of another sitting minister being abusive on television, then there is...."

"So what did she do?"

"One reporter said she made derogatory remarks about Imran Khan's third wife and before you go on a pirni rampage let me say that she does not come in public, does not use any of the facilities available to her husband as the chief executive and by extension to her, so let her be in peace...."

"She does have considerable influence on policy matters."

"Hey spouses do have influence and that's that....its not about doodh ka doodh its not about desi chicken, the proverb a second marriage is like a warmed up meal is more pertinent and since The Khan's second marriage is best forgotten the third marriage is a warmed up meal...."

'An Irish proverb is marriages are all happy. Its the breakfast together that causes all the trouble."

"I guess that's where milk and water..."

"I give up."

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