“L shaped it was…”
“The short leg of the L or the long leg?”
“Stop focusing on the tail of any subject — try the head sometimes!”
“Well, an L shape has a short leg and a long leg — you may call the long leg the arm but then for balance sake you would need to refer to the lower part of the L as the arm too and…”
“Dear Lord. Anyway The Khan has been imprisoned in an L shaped room, the long leg refers to…to…”
“Yes that’s the question my friend! There are so many cases against him that the two legs of an L are not going to be enough.”
“Just as a matter of curiosity how would you refer to it?”
“I would say Z – it starts at one end and ends at the other. The moment you lift your pen it’s all over if you know what I mean and the powers that be have not lifted the pen yet…”
“That’s because they are using a pencil.”
“Stop, anyway what letter would you assign Nawaz Sharif?”
“An O.”
“Hey that’s discriminatory — besides what’s it to you if he enjoys rich fatty foods…”
“Don’t get personal, when I said O I meant round and round the merry go round, The Khan has been ousted once Nawaz Sharif three times….”
“Hmmmm, anyway Sharif ain’t coming back just to go to jail — he returned earlier thinking he would get a reception attended by hundreds of thousands of…”
“Yes and The Khan reckons his supporters would sweep all obstacles if…if he is jailed and…”
“So what do you reckon – the ain brigade (24th auspicious letter of the Urdu alphabet) would sweep aside all obstacles and free The Khan.”
“Hmm, the jiyalas didn’t come out for Z A Bhutto, the Nawalas didn’t come out for Nawaz Sharif and the ain brigade led by an ain…”
“But there is a difference — jiyalas and nawalas are fed from corruption money…”
“Not foreign funding?”
“Don’t be facetious anyway the Khan supporters will be different — braving state power.”
“Hmmm, The Khan’s supporters have never followed his instructions in civil disobedience yet — I mean when in opposition he urged them to burn the electricity bills and they didn’t, he then…”
“Times are a changing…this is August 2022 not…”
“Indeed let’s see.”
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