The criticality of a moustache

"So Adolf Hitler or Charlie Chaplin!?"

"Excuse me? Those two men were poles apart on a goodness or evil scale of one to ten."

"Hey I wasn't talking personality/character traits or their impact on history - I was talking of their moustache."

"I don't get it - I mean if I recall correctly their moustache was similar, kind of."

"Well on one it spread fear and disgust and on another it was kind of cute right?"

"Right but I don't see...."

"How many of our leaders have that kind of moustache?"

"Not a single Pakistani party leader ever sported a moustache."

"Shabaz Sharif does."

"That's why he ain't a party leader in spirit yet."

"True what about Musharraf and Ziaul Haq?"

"I am talking civilian. Oh by the way Maryam Nawaz's spouse - retired captain Safdar doesn't sport a moustache so in the event he inherits the party leadership..."

"Don't be facetious the list of contenders for that position is in double figures in the PML-N, I can't imagine him ever being a contender."

"Stranger things have happened....who thought Zardari sahib would inherit the party before Benazir Bhutto's assassination! Zardari sahib was the first man in our history who inherited a national party from his wife instead of a parent!"

"Besides what's wrong with having a Captain as head of government. The Khan..."

"Was a cricket captain, won the world cup for the country, and was never in the army."

"Hmmm anyway going back to the moustache let me give you a few names and you tell me Hitler or Charlie Chaplin. The first name: Ayaz Sadiq?"

"Charlie Chaplin, though God Bless The Khan's media team, they are trying to make him into Hitler."

"Rana Sanaullah?"

"Definitely not Charlie. I mean I would hate to anger him on a dark street all alone."

"Fayyaz Chohan?"

"His projections for the opposition remind me of Charlie Chaplin though his comment on Maryam Nawaz's relationship with the retired captain with no moustache was rather sickening and would the PTI's women parliamentarians please take note..."

"In your dreams - I reckon Chohan's beard diffused the impact of the moustache...what about Container Shah, Interior Minister?"

"Charlie Chaplin."

"What about..."

"Enough already - most are all Charlies' my friend irrespective of which side of the House they sit on..."

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