"Eureka."
"Hey, you are the only one in this country who sees a light - the rest of us are struggling with no petrol, loadshedding, no gas..."
"You have to see the glass as half full my friend."
"From where I am sitting the glass is no longer a valid receptacle for any liquid in this country because we have run short of all liquids."
"You are just an inveterate pessimist. Me, I am an optimist, of sorts."
"Of sorts?"
"Well, you remember when the West used to say we must roll back our nuclear programme and we used to wonder how can we possibly roll back? I mean one can't unlearn something one has learnt if you know I mean."
"Where does nuclear roll back come in today's Pakistan? You are not right in the head and I believe the cell next to Imran Khan in the mental hospital as forecast by Rana Sanaullah is vacant and perhaps you..."
"Well, the Rana is pretty sure the PML-N leadership is not going to throw him in front of the lion!"
"And who is the lion?"
"Well, there are some jackals, some PhDs and some tigers though in this part of the world there are no lions and..."
"Don't be facetious - anyway going back to the nuclear roll back demand let me say that Mian sahib has done what no party leader could have done. He has effectively rolled back his party's governance capacity and..."
"It's not Dar's fault, it's SKA's fault."
"SKA? Isn't it Shaukat Khanum, so just SK?"
"For every cause there is an effect you know. So Imran Khan's Shaukat Khanum is trumped by Shahid Khaqan Abbassi (SKA)."
"I am glad you focused on SKA instead of Dar. Dar is not willing to take the blame - the finance ministry released a statement yesterday saying he had nothing to do with the petrol fiasco and the PM had not summoned him which incidentally was revised a few minutes later."
"And you believed the press statement?"
"Mian sahib's governance style reminds me of Michael Jackson's song: blame it on the boogie..."
"The boogie it is..."