“It’s not as if I don’t have much sympathy for Raoof Hassan after his attack.” “He suffered, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, so please don’t say anything.”
“I am not as good as you are, I mean I would wish that on my worst enemy, perhaps on a scale of one to ten even an enemy say on 5.”
“Don’t be facetious.”
“Besides I am like the Man Who Must Remain Faceless - if I am not allowed to say what is on my mind I have severe stomach cramps.”
“You sure it isn’t the desi chicken you have been recently enjoying.”
“Don’t be facetious. Anyway while I do sympathise with what happened to Raoof Hassan I ask you: can he win a single vote without the backing of the Man Who Must Remain Faceless?! Why are you laughing?”
“You think The Man Who Must Remain Faceless is being naive to have formally requested personal attendance in court and not through a video link? I mean if they get so excited about a photograph of his going viral while in jail with the mike is turned off…”
“Don’t know, don’t care. My point is that if The Man Who Must Remain Faceless directs his followers to vote for…for…Notification Maryam Nawaz (NMN) she will win the elections by a margin a lot higher than she did in February.”
“You being facetious!”
“No I am not, and I would advise him to do just that because NMN really works for his team – in less than three months she has alienated the Peoples Party, and this is after successfully systematically alienating daddy’s supporters one by one by one…”
“But she does look good in uniforms.”
“True anyway as I was saying Raoof Hassan has done a Third Wife – I mean he says that the attack by the razor blade was an attempt on his life and I would equate that with slow giving of harpic, a toilet cleaner, to the Third Wife in food…”
“The key word is slow – those who want to get rid of the Third Wife wanted to slowly poison her and the blade runners wanted him to slowly bleed to death and…”
“Blade runner is a movie about vampires isn’t it.”
“OK but you know I am sorry but whatever my views about who holds real power today the point is the real power holders know how dispensable everyone but The Man Who Must Remain Faceless is and so I am not sure they would try to turn these people who are peripheral to his party; and that too that slowly!”
“Maybe.”
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