"I saw the former Interior Minister on television again with a green handkerchief jutting out of his coat pocket and a green tie..."
"Well, luckily he didn't try to match his tie with his hair colour - now had he been wearing red or purple he could have had his hair matching his tie and handkerchief."
"I am afraid I will be forced to take exception to that comment. I mean green is the only colour in our flag, and Malik was no doubt showing his nationalistic tendencies..."
"You are so full of it!"
"Anyway, Malik was seen going to nine zero."
"So what do you reckon?"
"I reckon that the MQM has made as many internal changes as deemed appropriate in terms of recapturing the lost votes to PTI however the MQM's policy namely of running with the hares and hunting with the hounds is too embedded..."
"That's not fair, MQM is the only party that even as a coalition partner constantly took exception to what the PPPP said or did or whatever."
"And that my friend may well explain why all parties consider a coalition with the MQM very high maintenance".
"True, but I think the party may have learned a valuable lesson from the election results: the MQM's majority in nearly all of the seats it won in Karachi and Hyderabad was considerably pared by the PTI and charges of irregularities are nowhere so universal as in these two cities."
"But don't forget it is the PPP alone that can give the party what it most covets: local elections though I admit that the PPP never held the local elections in spite of agreeing during the previous tenure."
"Right, so the PPP has local elections as its trump card with MQM and the PML (N) in the Centre has its own advantages..."
"Right but the MQM has complained about the PML (N) not commiserating with its workers who lost their lives implying that the PPP's Amn committees were to blame."
"Didn't Rehman Malik say that PPP had nothing to do with Amn committees?"
"Yes and Rehman Malik said this while eating a banana."
"Don't be facetious, besides a protest that includes stopping work within a city must be declared anti-state. I mean in this land where output is so low..."
"I agree, but it would be difficult to break this habit, the lawyers in Punjab, the transporters in Karachi..."
"I would simply urge my countrymen to protest by placing the flag at half mast and observing a minute or two of silence in the national assembly..."
"If wishes were horses..."