"I would like to congratulate you."
"Whatever for? Ah, the Egyptian President Morsi visited this country after decades."
"It's a measure of the success of our foreign policy that he came, and before you start cribbing about his timing let me tell you that the President's term is for another five to six months and Morsi came on the President's invitation and..."
"So why in the world did he send Mushahid Hussain of the PML (Q) to receive the Egyptian President?"
"Mushahid went with other Arab ambassadors and let's be honest President Zardari would have chosen someone else had a Western head of state visited Pakistan."
"Don't be facetious."
"No seriously, Mushahid has been acting as Chaudhry Shujaat's tail for the past decade or so."
"I have it on good authority that Mushahid doesn't like to be referred to as tail, now shadow is fine with him."
"How come?"
"A tail can't really go anywhere else but a shadow can attach itself to whoever it so deems appropriate."
"By your definition he is a tail now and may at some point in future become a shadow. You know I feel sorry for Mushahid if he is pinning all his hopes on Chaudhry Shujaat who is facing a contempt of court case and his party membership is eroding at a faster pace than you can say boo."
"Booo..."
"And there went two more PML (Q) supporters."
"But why do you reckon Mushahid was selected to head the Morsi welcoming committee?"
"It's due to his presence during a dance by this woman who let me say had no grace and I would urge her to seek another profession."
"Hey, I watched that video, and I agree but let me say that I am not sure what Chaudhry Shujaat thought of it as he had his dark glasses on and his face was as inscrutable as when President Zardari used to refer to him as the head of the Qatil league but Mushahid looked decidedly uncomfortable."
"No question about it."