"I simply do not understand the way Mian sahib operates."
"Of course you don't and let me add no one does or else that individual could be the country's prime minister."
"I am not sure where you are going with this but..."
"I am simply stating facts. The guy has been elected the country's prime minister for the third time - that is no joke my friend."
"But not continuously."
"So what?"
"Well, look at the politics of the 1990s when Mian sahib was elected twice like his nemesis at the time Benazir Bhutto. The two never completed even half their term and need I add they conspired with the establishment to de-seat the other before the tenure was complete. Zardari sahib completed his tenure and need I add this is only the second time in our history that an elected government completed its five year term - the first time was Z A Bhutto - and then...hear ye all of little faith in our democracy...he was de-seated by the general public."
"Oh I see, you are linking actual performance to electoral performance."
"Right and you have to wait till the end of the current term, notwithstanding Imran Khan's ongoing attempts to hold an election prior to the end of the tenure, to actually congratulate Mian sahib. But anyway that's not what I was referring to when I said I do not understand the way Mian sahib operates."
"I know you must have been referring to his reported intent to go to the holy city of Mecca during the last week or so of Ramadan yet again to pray with his family, for himself and his family and the country and Punjab and..."
"In that order you reckon!"
"Well, he is human after all."
"Don't be facetious anyway no that's not it either. I do not understand why Mian sahib would take his Finance Minister to Karachi when he intends to discuss security related very thorny issues and the Interior Minister when funding for development projects is on the agenda and not security?"
"Ha ha ha, that's to keep us all guessing!"