“My point is if your adversary, much hated adversary, does something good then the best approach is to take ownership and thereby all the credit. If you recall Tony Blair didn’t initiate the Northern Ireland peace process, his predecessor John Major did…”

“Right I don’t know what you are referring to but those who are not part of the establishment and who won elections got the hole in one only one time…”

“Hole in one is a golfing term and so I assume you are referring to Trump’s defeat. Trump was not the establishment candidate, like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, and in 2016 people were disenchanted with the establishment, and in came Trump against all odds.”

“I do hope you are not referring to The Khan here – as you know our political parties revolve/operate around one man or family, and our establishment is not defined as long term loyalists in a political party like in the US. We have the military and its younger sister the civilian establishment and…”

“The Khan says the younger sister aint working for him as it is full of Zardis and Nawalas and…”

“OK, anyway Trump in spite of getting 10 million plus more votes than in 2016 lost and his rival Biden won 7 to 8 million more votes than him because of his performance…”

‘’Hmmm anyway going back to taking ownership of your adversary’s positive decisions let me point out to you that The Khan has appointed many former Zardari sahib and Nawaz Sharif’s cabinet members…”

“That’s not what I meant. I was actually flabbergasted by The Khan’s delivery to the SCO meeting from a prepared speech….”

‘You are so bad! Nawaz Sharif was good at it though and that’s why The Khan desisted from reading a prepared speech till Tuesday.”

“The speech wasn’t bad but the delivery was appalling and it seemed as if this was the first time he was reading it, now my suggestion is that he at least reads a prepared speech once and for Pete’s sake don’t we have a teleprompter from which our Prime Minister can read….”

“Ha haha and you were so critical of The Khan speaking extempore and now you know that his extempore speeches may have some geographical errors and…”

‘’And some historical others….”

“OK but his reading is appalling and if he has time from his chockablock daily full schedule with one meeting after another after another…”

“He is without doubt the Meeting King of this country and surpasses all previous heads of government in the number of meetings he heads daily though the decisions are kind of delayed and...”

“Be respectful. Anyway my suggestion is to get a teleprompter, read the speech at least once and finally perhaps read it in Urdu rather than English because that is after all our national language. Modi spoke in Hindi, President Xi in Chinese….”

“The Khan has made concessions for being a Pakistani by dressing a la Maneka style and I don’t think he is willing to make yet another concession and deliver his speech in Urdu at an international event…”

“Oh you need to be picked up by National Accountability Bureau…”

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