"And that's how we have so many, many accidental heads of parties with no charisma, little education and no experience...."

"I don't get you, how?"

"Captain Safdar..."

"Indeed from zero to hero, I reckon the Good Captain should send a basket of Pakistani sweets to The Khan for making him a national sensation over night."

"Ha ha the Good Captain has something in common with another."

"The King of Reconciliation Zardari sahib!? I don't think so because Zardari sahib, if you recall, helped his spouse many times when there was a conspiracy to de-seat her government so his experience is a lot more relevant than the Good Captain's - I mean right now his wife Maryam Nawaz is still under training..."

"She has tasted power through daddy..."

"Indeed and all those who daddy let her appoint are around her today - Parveen Rashid....oooops sorry that was inadvertent....Parvez Rashid, Mohammad Zubayr, Talal Chaudhary and....and that was the PML-N team in Karachi right!"

"Musaddaq Malik was there too but none of them are elected."

"Maryam Aurengzeb was there too and she is competent I reckon. Anyway that's the same o same o - our country and our parties are run by the selected not the elected and I don't mean The Khan though I do mean his cabinet..."

"Right but you know the debate is whether the Good Captain actually was referring to his wife when he said madre-millat (the mother of the nation) rather than to Fatimah Jinnah and in a court of law he is going to claim he meant Fatimah Jinnah who was railroaded by Ayub Khan during the elections and really there can be no counter argument...."

"I see what you mean. But the Khanzadehs are saying that the husband and wife shouldn't have jumped inside the perimeter of the mausoleum...."

"Hmm and their defense maybe that they didn't know and no one stopped them."

"Right anyway the airwaves were awash with the name of Captain Safdar and The Khan's Moe of the three stooges Chauhan - Larry is Gill the Fish and the new and improved Curly Joe is Ali Zaidi - anyway Moe denigrated Maryam Nawaz for referring to her husband by name in a television programme and said someone who cannot respect her husband publicly has no right...."

"Oh dear The Khan's Moe is going to cost The Khan a lot of votes for sounding just like Maulana D..."

"I keep hoping that The Khan understands that his media team is more representative of the ideas of the Maulana rather than his own...."

"Indeed."

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