“What’s the opposite of right?”

“Wrong.”

“I meant right as in not correct, but right as in entitlement…”

“Oh protocol you mean? I know so many, many politicians who gladly opt for lotahood…”

“Lotahood defined as?”

“Agreeing to follow a new leader that you may have been denigrating in return for protocol I guess.”

“Ha ha, there goes the age old argument of nature versus nurture.”

“I reckon both are involved especially in generational politics. Besides before you ask, protocol is a code allowing for perks and privileges at the taxpayers’ expense because the taxpayers elected the individual.”

“The code is written in this country for those who succeed in getting a ministry. For example if you are a federal minister you are entitled to a car, some security cars always behind you, cutting a queue…”

“Cutting the queue is an entitlement of all Pakistanis; I mean in France governments lose if they impose a heavier tax on cigarettes and wine and in Pakistan I assume a government that agrees to enforce a queue would lose elections though no one has dared to do so…”

“What’s the difference between an entitlement allowed under a written code and an entitlement allowed under the constitution?”

“The former can be changed by one signature while the latter requires two-third majority in parliament – oh I know where you are going with this but let me inform you that the Prime Minister and the Chief remain on the same page – the only issue is of synchronization of the speed of reading which has been agreed.”

“And as correctly pointed out by Fawad Chaudhary a re-tuning is required to synchronize the speed which is underway – it’s like turning off a steel mill and when you turn it on again it on requires time …”

“OK, we wait and see.”

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