"I am so tired of all the tragedies - natural, terror-related, incompetence-related and not to forget related to zero implementation of vehicle laws that specify which vehicles should not be allowed to ply our roads..."
"Right, I mean building roads at an exorbitant cost while the buses that ply the roads are anything but state of the art..."
"If you want state-of-the-art buses get on the Metrobus..."
"That's only operating in Lahore so far. Besides they are intercity and here I am talking about intra-city and..."
"Well, if the people don't trust buses they should take the plane."
"Who are you? Marie Antoinette?"
"What?"
"She was the queen of France who was informed that the people of France had no bread to eat and her wise much quoted statement was then why don't they eat cakes."
"You are being facetious."
"No and she was beheaded... I would urge the Sharifs to prioritise and if the public does not have access to basic drinking water, health or even education then sitting in a bus in Pindi and reaching the highly security sensitive Secretariat..."
"Well, maybe now the federal bureaucracy will vote Sharif."
"Bureaucracy will go where the wind blows as you well know, but anyway why didn't the Metrobus end before the blue area is reached - I mean that stop makes it mainly federal bureaucracy specific and..."
"Hey, as I say you say potato and I say potttaaato."
"What?"
"It's a matter of linguistics to some extent - I mean Nawaz Sharif will give the bureaucracy a cheap bus service while the Zardari led government gave the bureaucracy a 50 percent raise one year followed by at least 15 percent raise each year they were in power."
"Hey, I would take the 50 percent raise over a Metrobus service."
"Mian sahib is stuck in the 1990s politics you know - his taxi scheme gave him a lot of support so he reckons that the Metrobus will get him hundreds of thousands of more votes and..."
"The voting pattern in a democracy is fairly obvious: Zardari sahib lost the elections and..."
"Hey, the contest now appears to be how not to learn this obvious lesson."
"Ah, the politics in the Land of the Pure."